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Forcing KBR to hand over US documents to UK bribery probe would legally overreach, court told

By Martin Coyle ( October 13, 2020, 15:23 GMT | Insight) -- Engineering company KBR Inc shouldn’t have to meet UK corruption investigators' demands to hand over documents held in the US as it is “extremely unlikely” that lawmakers intended them to have such powers, KBR told the UK's Supreme Court. The company said the Serious Fraud Office had overreached in attempting to seize documents dating back decades during a probe into suspected corruption by its UK arm, KBR Ltd.Engineering company KBR Inc shouldn’t have to meet UK corruption investigators' demands to hand over documents held in the US as it is “extremely unlikely” that lawmakers intended them to have such powers, KBR told the UK's top judges today....

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