A landmark ruling in the UK has named several Ghanaian politicians as having once received bribes from a British construction firm Mabey & Johnson in the 1980s and the 1990s.
The British construction firm was ordered to pay �5m after it pleaded guilty to involvement in overseas corruption and breaching UN sanctions.
Mabey & Johnson tried to influence officials in Jamaica and Ghana when bidding for public contracts.
It also paid more than $200,000 (�123,000) to Saddam Hussein's Iraq regime, violating the terms of the UN oil for food programme.
Mabey & Johnson confessed its wrongdoing to the UK Serious Fraud Office.
The Reading-based bridge builders secured contracts worth �60 million by bribing foreign politicians and other officials.
A judge at Southwark Crown Court in London, on Friday, fined the firm �3.5m. It was also ordered to pay a �1.1m confiscation order and �350,000 in prosecution costs.
In addition the company has made �1,413,611 available as reparations to Ghana, Jamaica and Iraq.
Following extensive discussions with the Serious Fraud Office, it pleaded guilty to two charges of conspiracy to corrupt and one charge of breaching UN sanctions on Iraq.
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