ATHENS, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - A judge probing alleged kickbacks by Siemens to Greek politicians and corporate bigwigs to secure a giant contract will question a former company official in Germany, a legal source said Wednesday.

BERLIN, August 2, 2008 (AFP) - Greek telephone company OTE wants a German court to force engineering giant Siemens to reveal whether it paid bribes to OTE employees to secure a one billion dollar contract, a report said Saturday.

BERLIN, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - German engineering giant Siemens said Tuesday it would pursue former directors for damages in an unprecedented action based on a claim they ignored widespread corruption revealed nearly two years ago.

Among the 11 former executives targeted are former Siemens bosses Heinrich von Pierer and Klaus Kleinfeld, the company said in a statement.

BERLIN, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - German engineering giant Siemens said Tuesday it will pursue former directors for damages, in an unprecedented move linked to a corruption scandal which broke nearly two years ago.

Among the 11 former executives targeted are former Siemens bosses Heinrich von Pierer and Klaus Kleinfeld, the company said in a statement.

FRANKFURT, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - The German engineering group Siemens will sue 11 former directors for damages in connection with a corruption scandal which broke nearly two years ago, the company said on Tuesday.

MUNICH, July 28, 2008 (AFP) - A German court convicted former Siemens director Reinhard Siekaczek of corruption and gave him a two-year suspended sentence Monday in its first ruling involving an executive at the scandal-hit industrial giant.

Siekaczek, 57, was convicted on 49 counts of breach of trust and was ordered to pay 108,000 euros (170,000 dollars) in fines.

BERLIN, July 22, 2008 (AFP) - The German engineering group Siemens is to pursue former directors for damages suffered in a scandal that broke nearly two years ago, a press report said on Tuesday.

BERLIN, June 4, 2008 (AFP) - Deutsche Telekom, Europe's biggest phone company, will curb employee access to client data, its boss said Wednesday as he tried to contain a scandal sparked by the groups' spying on journalists.

BERLIN, June 1, 2008 (AFP) - The embattled boss of Deutsche Telekom has blamed the spying scandal at Germany's national phone company on 'a few bad apples' in an interview published on Sunday.

BERLIN, May 30, 2008 (AFP) - Germany's national phone company Deutsche Telekom said on Friday it has hired a retired judge to conduct an internal probe after a spying scandal saw it raided by prosecutors.