PARIS: A Paris appeals court has ordered France and French defense company Thales SA to pay back 630 million (about US$913 million) to Taiwan in a long-standing dispute over bribes in a 1991 frigate sale, the French prime minister's office said Thursday.
The ruling brings to a close a two-decade-old dispute over enormous bribes that were specifically forbidden in the contract but became an integral part of the transaction to sell Taiwan six Lafayette frigates.
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