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    Telecom group OTE may sue Siemens

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    Fri May 30, 2008 1:43pm EDT

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    FRANKFURT (Reuters) - OTE (OTEr.AT), Greece's largest telecom group and partly owned by Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE), may sue Siemens (SIEGn.DE) for damages over alleged overcharging, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported.

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    OTE has contacted lawyers in Germany and Greece to examine and prepare all necessary steps, which include a claim for damages, the paper said in a preview of an article to be published on Saturday, quoting OTE.

    Siemens was not immediately available for comment.

    Earlier this week, former Siemens manager Reinhardt Siekaczek told a court that he had been asked by superiors to construct a slush-fund network to disguise payments to foreign telecoms companies after such bribes became illegal in Germany in 1998.

    Such payments may have helped Siemens' telecoms equipment division -- of which OTE was a major customer -- win contracts against rivals such as Cisco (CSCO.O), Nokia (NOK1V.HE) and Ericsson (ERICb.ST).

    (Reporting by Eva Kuehnen; Editing by Quentin Bryar)
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