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BHP Olympics bust 'aggressive': expert

THE US Securities Exchange commission may have overreached by slugging BHP Billiton $US25 million ($34.04 million) for Foreign Corruption Practices Act breaches as it sponsored foreign government officials to attend the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, a global fraud detection expert says.

Anthony Barich

BHP invited 176 government officials and employees of state-owned enterprises - mainly from Asia and Africa - to the Olympics at its own expense, and ultimately paid for 60 guests and some spouses and...

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