Raytheon Company defrauded the US Department of Defense of nearly $1 billion on Patriot missiles and radars.

Raytheon's Patriot missile systems

The Hill reported on October 19th that arms manufacturer Raytheon will have to pay more than $950 million to settle allegations from the US Department of Justice regarding fraudulent activities against the Department of Defense and bribing a government official in Qatar to conduct business in the country.

Raytheon, part of the RTX group, is accused of "a large-scale government fraud conspiracy involving the mispricing of certain government contracts and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Arms Export Control Act," according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.

In addition, Raytheon is accused of violating regulations and breaching the International Arms Trade Regulations.

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Raytheon will sign three-year deferred prosecution agreements in separate cases filed in federal courts in Massachusetts and New York on October 16. The company also agreed to hire independent supervisors to ensure compliance with anti-corruption and anti-fraud laws.

The focus of the allegations in the Massachusetts case is on missile systems that Raytheon sold to the U.S. Department of Defense between 2011 and 2013, and the operation of a radar surveillance system in 2017. The company is accused of inflating its costs by $111 million in those transactions.

Raytheon is accused of lying to the Pentagon about the cost of building three Patriot missile systems, with the military agreeing to a $619 million contract.

Justice Department investigators uncovered a 2013 email in which Raytheon told the Pentagon that its projected costs had increased, while actual costs had decreased, resulting in the government paying an additional approximately $100 million, according to court records.

In 2017, Raytheon was accused of deceiving the U.S. Air Force about the operating and maintenance costs of a radar surveillance system to inflate the contract by an additional $11 million, prosecutors said.

In the New York case, Raytheon is accused of bribing a senior Qatari Air Force official between 2012 and 2016.

"For years, Raytheon employees bribed a senior Qatari military official to secure lucrative defense contracts and concealed the bribes by falsifying government documents, violating laws including those designed to protect our national security," Attorney General Breon Peace wrote in a Justice Department statement.

RTX stated that they "take responsibility for the misconduct that occurred" and "are committed to maintaining a world-class compliance program, adhering to global laws, regulations and internal policies, and upholding integrity and serving our customers ethically."

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