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From: "Andy Mensah" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 12:57 PM
Subject: [unioNews] Cheney's former company in probe
<H3>Cheney's former company in probe</H3>
By Jon Henley
Paris
October 12, 2003
The French public prosecutor's office is to open a judicial inquiry
into alleged corruption by a French engineering firm and the American
oil services giant Halliburton, which was headed until two years ago
by Dick Cheney, the Vice-President of the United States.
The investigation is the first of its kind in France under laws
introduced as part of an international convention on cross-border
corruption signed in 1997 by about 35 countries, including the US.
<B>The financial crimes squad in Paris believes a French oil and gas
engineering firm, Technip, and particularly the Halliburton
subsidiary KBR, were jointly involved during the 1990s in the payment
of up to $US200 million of under-the-counter "commissions" in
relation to a huge gas contract in Nigeria.</B>
The convention, under the auspices of the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development, aims to fight corporate attempts to buy
the favours of public authorities abroad.
It allows the police forces of signatory countries to investigate any
company suspected of offering commercial sweeteners to public
officials anywhere in the world.
According to Le Figaro newspaper, French police believe KBR was
behind a web of offshore companies and bank accounts set up
to "facilitate" the work of TSKJ, a venture between four engineering
companies that had won a lucrative contract from international oil
companies to build a large liquefied natural gas plant in the eastern
Niger delta. TSKJ, in which KBR was the leading player, allegedly
paid a second offshore company at least $US180 million in
commissions. It is alleged that much of that money wound up in the
pockets of public officials.
<B>The French judicial investigation into "corruption of foreign
public officials, abuse of funds, complicity and receiving
misappropriated monies" targets KBR but will inevitably involve
Halliburton, KBR's parent company, which has won about $US1.7 billion
in contracts from the Bush Administration to help rebuild Iraq's oil
industry.</B>
- Guardian
Copyright © 2003. The Age Company Ltd
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