The UK’s Serious Fraud Office fined Macmillan $18.3 million over illegal payments made by its education division to secure contracts in East and West Africa between 2002 and 2009. Macmillan said a report had identified “concerns over receipts from certain contracts” by its Education unit in Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia. The company settled with the World Bank last year over a similar situation in Southern Sudan. “We will not tolerate any form of potentially unlawful behavior,” Macmillan ceo Annette Thomas said in a statement. “Fortunately, it has been established that these issues were confined to a limited part of our […]
