RIYADH, 14 August 2003 — A Saudi telecommunications group last week filed a lawsuit accusing Lucent of bribing a Saudi official in order to gain business in the Kingdom. In the lawsuit filed in the New York District Court on Friday, the National Group for Communications and Computers alleges that Lucent and the Swiss company ACEC provided a former official with bribes worth an estimated $15 million between 1995 and 2002.