Secret bank accounts.
Shadowy subcontractors that are vehicles for payoffs. These are part of the deal in all too many international business transactions. But seldom have they been associated with the good name of International Business Machines. So the humiliation was all the greater last week when former and current executives of IBM Argentina were charged with defrauding the state in what appears to be a kickback scheme. Bagnasco believes CCR, a firm with a murky history, was a conduit for bribe money.