Bangalore: There is a new awakening, a social retaliation and a political consciousness among the Indians regardless of class and creed in the recent past against India’s never-ending curse of corruption. While the civil society intensifies its crusade against this menace here, the U.S. government has long been fighting a relentless battle against bribery. The latest of the development, a trial court has ruled its verdict in the biggest U.S. prosecution of individuals accused of foreign bribery. The case involved a sting operation targeting a group of military equipment dealers, writes Josh Goodman in India Realtime.

The related sting was carried out by officials from the U.S. government in 2009 who were duped as representatives of the defense minister of Gabon. The agents managed to trap 22 businessmen in  an alleged scheme to bribe the minister in order to win a multi-million dollar military contract. The case ended with acquittals of two defendants and a mistrial for three security industry executives as the jury couldn’t agree on a verdict.

Although the political critics argue that the failure to draw any convictions is a serious setback to U.S. anticorruption prosecutors, the way the U.S. government dealt with the Gabon case and its aggressive undercover tactics once again proves the government’s determination in fighting the war against corruption involving multinational businesses. The healthy law enforcement has brought in billions of dollars in corruption fines to the government of United States.