A lawyer in Mexico for Baxter International Inc. offered to pay an opposing expert in a lawsuit to leave the country on a key court date, according to a recording of the conversation obtained by The Associated Press.

In the lawsuit, Mexican trucking company Translog alleges that Baxter violated contract terms when it used other shippers to deliver dialysis supplies to patients. Baxter alleges that Translog refused to carry out important orders, according to The Chicago Tribune.

“The offer to engage an expert was not intended seriously and the lawyer had no authority to offer it or act on it,” Baxter spokeswoman Laureen Cassidy told the AP. “It does not constitute bribery under Mexican law and was never acted upon.”