After nearly 10 years of investigations, an international court of arbitration in Paris has finally ruled that the French defense contractor Thales has to pay Taiwan more than US$591 million as a sanction for payment of commissions in its sale of six Lafayette-class frigates to the Republic of China Navy in 1991.
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