At any rate 21 US Navy Sailors have endured wounds after a fire broke out on board a naval force vessel positioned at a maritime base in the city of San Diego.
"Seventeen Sailors and four regular people are being treated for non-hazardous wounds at a nearby clinic," the US Navy said in an announcement.
The mariners on the USS Bonhomme Richard had "minor wounds" from the fire and were taken to a medical clinic, Lt. Cmdr. Patricia Kreuzberger disclosed to CNN before Sunday.
There were 160 individuals on board when the fire began, as per the Naval Surface Forces.
All team individuals have securely emptied the vessel and all are represented, the maritime armada said in a prior Tweet, Sputnik tweeted.
The purpose behind the fire is yet to be learned. Beginning reports from the boat demonstrate it began in the well deck, as per a safeguard official.
(Just the feature and image of this report may have been improved by the Business Standard staff; the remainder of the substance is auto-produced from a coordinated feed.)
International
retail giant Walmart Thursday agreed to pay over $282 to various US
bodies to settle charges of violating anti-corruption regulations
while conducting its business in India, China, Brazil and Mexico.
According
to the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), these violations
were conducted by Walmart's third-party intermediaries who made
payments to foreign government officials without reasonable
assurances that they complied with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
or FCPA.
SEC
has charged Walmart with violating FCPA by failing to operate a
sufficient anti-corruption compliance programme for more than a
decade as the retailer experienced rapid international growth.Walmart
agreed to pay more than $144 million to settle the SEC's charges and
approximately $138 million to resolve parallel criminal charges by
the Department of Justice for a combined total of more than $282
million, SEC said.
"Walmart
valued international growth and cost-cutting over compliance,"
said Charles Cain, Chief of the SEC Enforcement Division's FCPA
Unit."The company could have avoided many of these problems, but
instead Walmart repeatedly failed to take red flags seriously and
delayed the implementation of appropriate internal accounting
controls," he said.
Walmart
consented to the SEC's order finding that it violated the books and
records and internal accounting controls provisions of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934.
According
to the SEC's order, Walmart failed to sufficiently investigate or
mitigate certain anti-corruption risks and allowed subsidiaries in
Brazil, China, India, and Mexico to employ third-party intermediaries
who made payments to foreign government officials without reasonable
assurances that they complied with the FCPA.
