Nigeria: Halliburton-KBR to Pay $402m Bribery Fine

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The government filed a document in Houston Federal Court called a criminal information, spelling out the allegations, as well as a motion to waive certain procedures. The motion says KBR “agrees to all the facts alleged in the information,” and refers to a plea agreement, but Justice Department spokeswoman Laura Sweeney in Washington said the agreement itself is not yet available to the public. No court date for the case has been set, she said.

The charges stem from allegations of a decade-long scheme in which KBR, through intermediaries, paid more than $180 million in bribes to Nigerian officials to land contracts to build a $6 billion gas liquefaction plant on Bonny Island.

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