Portugal Telecom has been ordered to pay a fine of $1.25 million to settle U.S. charges that it failed to disclose it had more than €1.6 billion invested in commercial paper before it was acquired by Brazilian telecom group Oi.
The paper was issued by Ricardo Salgado’s Espírito Santo International and Rioforte Investments, two Grupo Espírito Santo subsidiaries, writes Matthew Heller on the CFO.com website.