KBR Executive Pleads Guilty in Bribery Case
A former colleague of the US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, has pleaded guilty to funnelling millions of dollars in bribes to win lucrative contracts in Nigeria for Halliburton, during the period in the Nineties when Mr Cheney ran the giant oil and gas services company. Albert Stanley, who was appointed by Mr. Cheney as chief executive of Halliburton’s subsidiary KBR, admitted using a London lawyer to channel payments to Nigerian officials as part of a bribery scheme that landed some $6 bn of work in the country over a decade. Mr. Cheney led Halliburton from 1995 until returning to government in 2000.
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