Nigeria : Ex-America VP faces bribery charges
on 2010/12/4 11:52:21
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Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said on Thursday it would file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney in a $180 million bribery case. The case involves KBR which is a former unit of oil services firm Halliburton.

Mr. Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive before becoming vice-president to George W. Bush in 2001

"We are filing charges against Cheney," EFCC spokesman Femi Babafemi told Reuters, without giving any further details on what the charges were, or where they would be filed.

The Nigerian anti-corruption agency had last week detained 10 Nigerian and expatriate Halliburton staff for questioning after a raid on its Lagos office.

US based engineering firm KBR, pleaded guilty last year to U.S. charges that it paid $180 million in bribes between 1994 and 2004 to Nigerian officials.

The bribes were reportedly aimed at securing $6 billion in contracts for the Bonny Island liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region.
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