DaimlerChrysler admitted yesterday that it had paid bribes as German prosecutors opened an investigation into the carmaker alongside an existing US probe.

• 在戴姆勒克莱斯勒的总部所在地斯图加特，州检察机关启动了行贿调查，公司涉嫌贿赂比利时、加纳的政府官员和波兰一商业买家。