Dick Cheney to be charged with bribery

[eccentricyoruba]

Dick Cheney to be charged in $180-million Halliburton bribery case

Nigeria's anti-corruption police said on Thursday they planned to file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney in a $180 million bribery case involving a former unit of oil services firm Halliburton.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday summoned the country chief of Halliburton and last week detained 10 Nigerian and expatriate Halliburton staff for questioning after raiding its Lagos office.

"We are filing charges against Cheney," EFCC spokesman Femi Babafemi told Reuters, but declined to give any further details on what the charges were, or where they would be filed.

Houston-based engineering firm KBR, a former Halliburton unit, pleaded guilty last year to U.S. charges that it paid $180 million in bribes between 1994 and 2004 to Nigerian officials to secure $6 billion in contracts for the Bonny Island liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the Niger Delta.

KBR and Halliburton, which was once headed by Cheney, reached a $579 million settlement in the United States but Nigeria, France and Switzerland have conducted their own investigations into the case.

Halliburton split from KBR in 2007 and has said that its current operations in Nigeria are unrelated.

 

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[the_future_modernes]

I'm just pissed at the fact that Spain called them out too, but Wikileaks Reveals the pressure that Republicans and then Obama and his White House proceeded to drop on Spain like a ton of bricks ANd they folded and went after the judge. Yeah verily, freedom and justice for all. And Nigeria is in a much worse position relative to Spain. Its just frustrating!

[eccentricyoruba]

And Nigeria is in a much worse position relative to Spain.

Exactly. I just like how cases like these expose how corruption in many parts of Africa is not just a "thing that happens among locals". Western companies are usually involved in bribery and corruption here, including undermining development efforts. It is frustrating and is it wrong I believe "freedom and justice for all" is a myth?

[the_future_modernes]

It is a myth. Freedom and justice are for those who can afford it. And I have a feeling that if we knew all that was hidden about shady dealinsg in teh West, teh corruption indices between then and parts of Africa wouldn't be too dissimilar.

[eccentricyoruba]

And I have a feeling that if we knew all that was hidden about shady dealinsg in teh West, teh corruption indices between then and parts of Africa wouldn't be too dissimilar.

*Nods* exactly.