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Company: United Technologies Corporation
Current Parent Company: RTX Corporation
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Penalty: $75,000,000
Year: 2012
Date: June 28, 2012
Offense Group: competition-related offenses
Primary Offense: export control violation
Mega-Scandal: Sanctions Violations
Violation Description: United Technologies and its subsidiaries Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation and Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. all agreed to pay more than $75 million as part of a global settlement with the Justice Department and State Department in connection with the illegal export to China of military software for helicopters and for making false and belated disclosures to the U.S. government about these illegal exports. Pratt & Whitney Canada pleaded guilty on two counts while it and United Techologies and Hamilton Sundstrand received deferred prosecution agreeements for the others.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: U.S. Attorney-District of Connecticut
Civil or Criminal Case: criminal
Prosecution Agreement: plea & deferred prosecution agreement
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Massachusetts
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: aerospace and military contracting
Specific Industry of Current Parent: aerospace & military contracting
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