A Manhattan federal judge said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may pursue civil bribery charges against three former executives at a Hungarian unit of Deutsche Telekom AG. Friday's decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan is a win for the SEC, following several rocky years for U.S. authorities in their attempts to police individuals accused of foreign bribery. Sullivan rejected the motion of former Magyar Telekom Plc Chief Executive Elek Straub, director of central strategic organization Andras Balogh and director of business development and acquisitions Tamas Morvai to dismiss the SEC case alleging violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The defendants were charged in December 2011 when Deutsche Telekom and its 60-percent owned Magyar Telekom agreed to pay $95.2 million to settle U.S. criminal and civil probes into the bribery of government officials in Macedonia and Montenegro. U.S. investigators said Magyar executives had in 2005 and 2006 used sham
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