
LONDON, April 30 (Reuters) - Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said on Wednesday it had launched an international bribery investigation into British construction company Blu-3 and former associates of the global construction firm Mace Group.
The SFO said in a statement it searched five properties and made three arrests as part of the probe.
The SFO said individuals at Blu-3 were suspected of paying over 3 million pounds ($3.99 million) in bribes to former associates of the Mace Group relating to a data centre construction in the Netherlands for Microsoft.
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