
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, January 28, 1995                   TAG: 9501310031
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: ATLANTA                                 LENGTH: Short

LOCKHEED BRIBERY COSTS $24.8 MILLION

Aerospace contractor Lockheed Corp. Friday pleaded guilty to bribing an Egyptian legislator and was fined $24.8 million for violating the federal Corrupt Practices Act.

The move allowed Lockheed to avoid a trial the government said would have disclosed how the company paid about $1 million to influence the sale of cargo planes to the Egyptian government.

The charges concern a 1989 contract, valued at $79 million, for three C-130 Hercules transport planes. Calabasas, Calif.-based Lockheed has a major manufacturing plant in suburban Atlanta, which builds the Hercules.

The government accused Lockheed and some of its executives of using the influence of Leila Takla, a member of the Egyptian People's Assembly from 1987 to 1990, to persuade Egypt to buy three C-130s in the late 1980s.

While serving in the assembly, Takla, who previously had been a paid consultant for the company, continued to receive a retainer fee and do work for Lockheed, the government charged.

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