Updated at 7:10 p.m.

Ericsson AB on Friday agreed to pay more than $1 billion to resolve claims that the Swedish telecommunications company paid bribes between 2000 and 2017 to build business in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, capping a long-running investigation with one of the largest penalties ever assessed in the U.S. government’s enforcement of anti-corruption law.

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