Dick Cheney to be arrested: Nigeria charges $180M bribery scheme
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It looks like justice will finally be served. Here is the latest from Raw Story:
The company that Dick Cheney ran prior to becoming Vice President of the United States was atop the tongue of liberals each time his company was awarded a contract in Iraq.
Now the company’s name, Halliburton, is being spoken somewhere else: Nigeria.
According to a story filed late Wednesday, Cheney will be indicted in a Nigerian bribery case as part of an investigation into an alleged $180 million bribery scandal.
“Last week, Nigeria arrested at least 23 officials from companies including Halliburton, Saipem, Technip and a former subsidiary of Panalpina Welttransport Holding AG in connection with alleged illegal payments to Nigerian officials. Those detained were all freed on bail on Nov. 29,” Bloomberg News’ Elisha Bala-Gbogbo wrote.
“Authorities in the West African nation are probing Halliburton, Saipem and Technip for the alleged payment of $180 million in bribes to win a $6 billion liquefied natural-gas contract,” Bala-Gbogbo added. “Panalpina is being investigated for illegal payments it allegedly made to Nigerian customs officials on behalf of Royal Dutch Shell Plc.”
The prosecuting counsel for the country’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said that indictments will be handed down in the next three days and that an arrest warrant for Cheney “will be issued and transmitted through Interpol.”
Adds Bloomberg, “Obla said charges will be filed against current and former chief executive officers of Halliburton, including Cheney, who was CEO from 1995 to 2000, and its former unit KBR Inc., based in Houston, Texas; Technip SA, Europe’s second-largest oilfield- services provider; Eni SpA, Italy’s biggest oil company; and Saipem Construction Co., a unit of Eni. Obla didn’t identify the former officials whom he said held office when the alleged bribes were paid.”
A spokesman for Cheney declined to comment.
The US Securities and Exchange Committee probe focused on the deal as early as 2004. Wrote The Washington Post at the time:
The Nigerian project, started in the early 1990s, was worth almost $5 billion to TSKJ, a partnership that included a KBR predecessor, as well as companies from France, Japan and the Netherlands.
At issue are payments made to Tristar, a Gibraltar company that had a consulting arrangement with a corporation formed by TSKJ to “administer the contracts and execute the work” in Nigeria, a Halliburton spokeswoman said in response to questions.
KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton, was formed when Halliburton acquired Dresser Industries Inc. in 1998. It was a combination of Halliburton’s Brown & Root and Dresser’s M.W. Kellogg Co. Officials from the SEC and Cheney’s office declined to comment.
Early on Thursday, Halliburton said they hadn’t seen the new charges, but still denied their involvement.
“Halliburton’s oil-field services operations in Nigeria have never in any way been part of the LNG project and none of the Halliburton employees have ever had any connection to or participation in that project,” Tara Mullee Agard, a spokeswoman for the Houston-based company, said in an e-mailed response to Bloomberg.
Added Bloomberg: “Halliburton Co., the world’s second- largest oilfield-services provider, said it hasn’t seen any amended charges by Nigerian authorities who plan to indict current and former employees in a bribery scandal.”
Many thanks to Raw Story
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That’s not always the case (OJ Simpson, Casey Anthony questionably) but I hope justice is served. I hope you’re right. And there is no reason to be a jerk or rude just b/c you do not agree.
Have a great day, smile every once in awhile.
I agree with you there Josh. Never a reason to be a jerk.
Joshua. If Cheney had done anything illegal the 9/11 Commission whom did a 2 year investigation, would’ve found it , blasted him in the NY Times. You seem dumb and dense.
Yes, if his guilt can be proven in court then he will be found guilty, and paraded by the liberal media. Chill out, he’ll get his day in court!
Peace, GW
Nothing. I mean nothing wil happen to Cheney. Look at his career. Came from nothing but was smart. Failed out of Yale only to go back and get draft deferement by reapplying to school. When they started drafting student he got married. When they started drafting married men his wife got miraculously pregnant and then he hit post draft age of 26. Yeah!!!!
After 9/11, Haliburton got billions in contracts in a no bid fashion. He lied about any financial gains from Haliburton. Many people went to jail for illegal sales to foreign nations but always someone falling on sword just like this time.
Cheney was fortunate that the “catalyst” and “Pearle Harbor” event needed for this neocon think tank (members include (Rice, Rumsfield, Cheney, Jeb Bush and others) happened to push their re envision of America. They said in this 1999 report that change would happen slowly without an event.
Wow, nice when hard work, planning weren’t wasted because when 9/11 came around they had Cheney in the White House, had Patriot Act pre written, and plan in motion. Gee, thanks 9/11 you saved the day.
This creature that has no pulse and eats babies for snacks, will never be caught for anything he has done.
LOL! You could be right Jess.
Christmas came early this year!
Cheney never divested himself of his Halliburton shares after becoming VP. Just like Rumsfeld didn’t divest from Gilead and investment funds with holdings in defence contractors. For some reason, Congress let them get away with flouting the rules.
Gilead = Gilead Sciences, maker of Tamiflu and other pharmaceutics.
Gilead Sciences make mostlyHIV meds (including Atripla,Truvada, and others for billions of dollars a year) and HepB drugs. Tamiflu is made by international make Roche.
Interesting indeed!
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Nigeria is one of the most corrupt countries in Africa, all that oil and gas. No surprise that Haliburton has it’s sticky fingers in there. I wish Interpol and other honest brokers good luck on nabbing Cheney.
Nigerian scams aren’t supposed to flow in the direction of Nigeria from here. This is weird. The prosecuting counsel for Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission just offered me $12.5 million if I would run a draft of a check through my account yesterday.
Please let this be true.