External expert to review L&T probe into Cognizant deal

CHENNAI: Larsen & Toubro said an external expert would review the findings of an internal probe the company carried out two years ago, after client Cognizant Technology Solutions disclosed that bribes were paid to get building permits for its campuses in India.

L&T, India’s largest engineering and construction firm that was the contractor for Cognizant’s campus outside Chennai, said the internal probe didn’t reveal any evidence linking the involvement of the company or its executives to the issues raised in the software exporter’s disclosure.

The 2017 “management-initiated” investigation was carried out by “leading law firms in USA and India, with the help of forensic experts from Hong Kong”, the company said in a late Thursday filing with stock exchanges.