US charges two Britons with bribes in KBR venture

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US charges two Britons with bribes in KBR venture
Thu Mar 5, 2009 - Reuters
www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN0548447720090305

WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - Two British citizens face charges of bribing Nigerian officials as part of a joint venture that included KBR Inc (KBR.N) to build liquefied natural gas facilities, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.

Jeffrey Tesler was arrested in London on Thursday, the same day as the indictment handed down in February was made public, the department said. It said former KBR employee Wojciech Chodan, of England, was being sought on a U.S. arrest warrant. The department said it was seeking extradition of the suspects, and forfeiture of $130 million from the two.

KBR, a former engineering subsidiary of Halliburton Co (HAL.N), pleaded guilty last month to federal charges that it paid $180 million in bribes to Nigerian officials in a decade-long scheme to secure $6 billion in contracts.

KBR agreed to pay a $402 million fine, of which Halliburton agreed to pay $302 million. Halliburton also agreed with U.S. securities regulators to disgorge $177 million in profits to settle parallel criminal charges.

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1. That's why the british are so mad at mugabe. They cannot bribe him

Otherwise mugabe could slaughter at will, and the MSM would not report it.