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Jacobs Group Australian foreign-bribery prosecution faces further delay ahead of Supreme Court

By Laurel Henning ( August 6, 2020, 08:00 GMT | Insight) -- A foreign-bribery prosecution involving Australian engineering consultancy Jacobs Group is facing further delays to its final stage in a local Sydney court before an expected move to the Supreme Court of New South Wales for trial. Lawyers in the case have asked for four more weeks to finalize charges against Jacobs Group, because of concerns that committing some of the defendants for trial before concluding discussions with the company could impact the executives' prosecutions.A foreign-bribery prosecution involving Australian engineering consultancy Jacobs Group is facing further delays to its final stage in a local Sydney court before an expected move to the Supreme Court of New South Wales for trial....

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