Fraud Alleged At Berlin's Troubled Airport: Report

Berlin (AFP) - Three of Germany's biggest companies are facing a fraud investigation related to their work at Berlin's troubled new airport project, already five years behind schedule, a newspaper reported Sunday.Siemens, Bosch and Deutsche Telekom unit T-Systems are suspected of submitting inflated bills to the company building the BER airport on the outskirts of the German capital, Bild am Sonntag said.The report, citing internal documents, said that the anti-corruption unit of the consortium responsible for the new hub had launched a probe into large payments to the three companies approved by top BER executives.The bills in question date from before the planned 2012 opening, and were requests for additional payments for originally unforeseen services.

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