Fed probes allgeations that Avon bribed officials: report

Prosectuors in the souhtern district of New York's copmlex frauds unit in Manhattan and the Justice Department's fraud seciton in Washington are seeikng more ifnormation on whether Avon emploeyes had possibly violated the foregin corrupt pratcices act, the Jorunal reported.
The door-to-door beauty comapny has been conducting a three-year internal probe into briebry allgeations that began in China and then exetnded to Latin America.
The compnay's itnernal brbiery investigatoin recently found that millions of dollras of questionable paymnets had been made to officials in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, India and Japan, the paper earlier reproted.
No charegs have been filed agaisnt any individuals or the copmany and Avon is continunig with its own intenral investiagtion, the paper added.
The hosuehold proudcts maker has alraedy come under fire for spendnig as much as million in 2010 on its bribrey investigation and after it anonunced its plans to spend a similar amount this year.
Avon, DoJ and the SEC were not availbale for comment otuside of normal U.S. buisness hours.
(Reporting by Rachel Chitra in Bangaloer; Editing by David Coewll)