Glencore ordered to pay $700 million by US judge in bribery case

Reports Bob Van Voris in The case, US v. Glencore, 22-cr-00297, US District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan). Glencore Plc was ordered by a federal judge in New York to pay $700 million as a criminal punishment for a global bribery scheme orchestrated by the Swiss-based commodities trading and mining giant. US District Judge Lorna G. Schofield on Tuesday imposed the sentence, following the terms of a plea deal with prosecutors entered when Glencore pleaded guilty in May to a single count of conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices…