Another conviction in the same bribery scandal that saw charges filed against former US VP, Dick Cheney, was had this week when a former lieutenant of KBR chief executive Albert “Jack” Stanley pleaded guilty to participating in an $6B LNG scheme.
A Briton who worked for a unit of KBR Inc pleaded guilty on Monday in U.S. court to taking part in a decade-long scheme to bribe high-level Nigerian officials to secure $6 billion in contracts.
Wojciech Chodan, 72, admitted to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations for bribes he and others paid from 1994 to 2004, after they met at “crucial junctures” with successive holders of a top-level office in Nigeria’s executive branch, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement.
The bribes were paid to get contracts for a KBR-run joint venture to build and expand Nigeria’s Bonny Island liquefied natural gas terminal. KBR sought to avoid an FCPA breach by using shell companies in Portugal and not appointing U.S. citizens to run them, according to previous court filings.
KBR and ex-parent Halliburton Co already reached a total U.S. settlement over Bonny Island of $579 million. As part of the 2007 separation…
This report from Frontline is very informative.
