A lawsuit filed in California in 2019 included
allegations that Raytheon had funneled around 7 million Qatari
riyal, or $1.9 million, in payoffs through a Doha-based defense
and security-consulting firm that was part-owned by a brother of
Qatar's ruling emir, WSJ reported.
The lawsuit was dismissed last year on jurisdictional grounds.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission began making
inquiries into the allegations after the lawsuit was filed and
the justice department soon followed suit, the report said.
Raytheon was not immediately available for comment.
(Reporting by Shreyasee Raj; Editing by Vinay Dwivedi)
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