Ultra Electronics Forensic Technology sells systems that use AI to match bullets and cartridge cases and find links between ballistics data gathered from different crime scenes. Its customers include the RCMP, which on Wednesday charged the company and four people with bribery and fraud in pursuit of a contract in the Philippines. (The Logic)

Talking point: Canada’s Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act allows charges to be laid here over corrupt activities abroad. It’s been used in cases involving Botswana, India and Libya—in the last instance, SNC-Lavalin executive Sami Bebawi was sentenced to more than eight years in prison. Ultra told The Globe and Mail that the four individuals the RCMP named—Robert Walsh, Philip Heaney, René Bélanger and Michael McLean, all from the Montreal area—have all left the company and the charges are related to conduct more than five years ago.