TIGO危地马拉付逾1.18亿美元了结行贿调查，与美国司法部达成两年暂缓起诉协议
2025年11月10日，美国司法部在华盛顿宣布，危地马拉电信运营商Comunicaciones Celulares S.A.（营业名称TIGO Guatemala）已支付逾1.18亿美元，了结司法部对其长期行贿危地马拉政府官员行为的调查。该公司是Millicom International Cellular S.A.的全资子公司，Millicom在卢森堡注册并设总部、主要营业地在美国。
TIGO Guatemala就佛罗里达州南区联邦地区法院的一份刑事指控信息达成两年暂缓起诉协议，被指控一项串谋违反美国《反海外腐败法》反贿赂条款的罪名。按协议，公司同意支付6,000万美元刑事罚金和58,198,343美元行政没收，并在协议期内继续配合司法部刑事司欺诈科与佛罗里达州南区联邦检察官办公室的调查、强化合规计划并定期报告整改进展。
法院文件显示，2012年至2018年间，TIGO Guatemala在当时的危地马拉股东和其他时任高管的策划下，实施了一套广泛而系统的行贿安排：按月以现金向多名危地马拉国会议员或其安保人员付款，换取他们支持对TIGO Guatemala有利的立法。司法部说，公司用来支付部分贿款的现金，是毒品贩运经洗钱后的所得。
司法部说，Millicom曾于2015年主动、及时地向刑事司自我披露，但当时掌握运营控制权的危地马拉股东阻挠Millicom获取关键信息、也阻挠公司人员配合与整改，欺诈科于2018年结束了第一阶段调查。2020年，司法部从其他来源获得并主动发展了新证据后重启调查，发现违法行为在第一阶段调查结束期间及之后仍在继续。司法部因此认定该公司不符合刑事司企业执法与自愿自我披露政策第一部分或第二部分的解决条件。
不过，公司在Millicom于2021年取得完全所有权与控制权后接受责任、在第二阶段调查中实质配合并采取了广泛整改，包括解雇涉案人员与强化合规计划。司法部说，基于这些因素，刑事罚金按适用量刑指南区间的下限减半，暂缓起诉期定为两年。联邦调查局正在调查此案；佛罗里达州南区与加利福尼亚州南区联邦检察官办公室此前已起诉四名与该行贿安排有关的个人。
TIGO Guatemala Pays Over $118 Million to Resolve Bribery Investigation Under Two-Year Deferred Prosecution Agreement With the Justice Department
On November 10, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice announced in Washington that Comunicaciones Celulares S.A., doing business as TIGO Guatemala, a mobile and fixed telecommunications service provider in Guatemala, had paid over $118 million to resolve the department's investigation into a long-running scheme to bribe government officials in Guatemala. TIGO Guatemala is a wholly owned subsidiary of Millicom International Cellular, S.A., an international telecommunications company incorporated and headquartered in Luxembourg that has its principal place of business in the United States.
TIGO Guatemala entered into a two-year deferred prosecution agreement in connection with a criminal information filed in the Southern District of Florida charging the company with one count of conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Under the agreement, the company agreed to pay a $60 million criminal penalty and $58,198,343 in administrative forfeiture, and TIGO Guatemala and Millicom agreed to continue cooperating with the Criminal Division's Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, to enhance TIGO Guatemala's compliance program, and to report periodically to the department on remediation throughout the term of the agreement.
According to court documents, between 2012 and 2018, TIGO Guatemala engaged in a widespread and systematic bribery scheme orchestrated by its then-Guatemalan shareholder and other then-senior personnel. The scheme featured monthly bribe payments, usually paid in cash, to numerous Guatemalan members of Congress or members of their security teams, in exchange for, among other things, their support for legislation that benefited TIGO Guatemala. The department said some of the cash used to pay bribes was the laundered proceeds of narcotrafficking.
The department said it gave significant weight to Millicom's initial voluntary and timely self-disclosure to the Criminal Division in 2015, but that TIGO Guatemala's then-Guatemalan shareholder used its operational control to prevent Millicom from accessing critical information and from requiring personnel to cooperate and take remedial actions, and the Fraud Section closed its initial investigation in 2018. In 2020, the department obtained and proactively developed new evidence from sources other than the company and reopened the investigation, finding that the criminal conduct had continued during and after the closure of the first phase and had involved narcotrafficking proceeds. TIGO Guatemala therefore did not meet the requirements for a resolution under Part I or Part II of the Criminal Division's Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy.
The company nevertheless received credit for its acceptance of responsibility, its substantial cooperation with the second phase of the investigation, and the extensive remedial measures it took after Millicom acquired full ownership and control in 2021, including terminating personnel involved in the scheme and enhancing its compliance program. In light of these considerations, the department said, the criminal penalty reflects a 50 percent reduction from the bottom of the applicable guidelines range and the deferred prosecution term is two years. The FBI is investigating the case, and the U.S. Attorney's Offices for the Southern District of Florida and the Southern District of California previously charged four individuals connected to the scheme.
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