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$1.28 Billion in Total Penalties Obtained to Date for Scheme to Bribe Nigerian Government Officials to Obtain Contracts
WASHINGTON, July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Snamprogetti Netherlands B.V., (Snamprogetti) has agreed to pay a $240 million criminal penalty to resolve charges related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for its participation in a decade-long scheme to bribe Nigerian government officials to obtain engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts, the Department of Justice announced today. The EPC contracts to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities on Bonny Island, Nigeria, were valued at more than $6 billion.
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BONNY ISLAND, RIVERS STATE, Nigeria -- Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the NLN...
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Enforcement Actions By DOJ and SEC Result in Penalties of $338 Million for Technip's Participation in a Scheme to Bribe Nigerian Government Officials to Obtain Contracts
WASHINGTON, June 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Technip S.A., a global engineering, construction and services company based in Paris, has agreed to pay a $240 million criminal penalty to resolve charges related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for its participation in a decade-long scheme to bribe Nigerian government officials to obtain engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts, the Department of Justice announced today. The EPC contracts to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities on Bonny Island, Nigeria, were valued at more than $6 billion.
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... multinational companies involved in the Bonny Island bribery case (the consortium known as TSKJ ...
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Business/Energy Editors
THE WOODLANDS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2003
Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V. (NYSE:CBI) in consortium with Bilfi...
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The bribes were paid in installments: $60 million in 1995, $37.5 million in 1999, $51 million in 2001 and $23 million in 2002. They were directed to bank accounts in Switzerland and Monaco, with some monies allegedly earmarked for Sani Abacha, a Nigerian oil minister and former president of KBR.
KBR, according to the investigation, paid out millions in kickbacks to Nigerian officials to build a gas liquefaction facility at Bonny Island in Rivers State, Nigeria, and other projects dating back as far as 20 years.
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...Jeffrey Tesler, central to the TSKJ-Bonny Island consortium, agreed to forfeit nearly $149 m...
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Maine School Administrative District 6 recently held its annual Senior Citizens' Appreciation Night and Dinner for senior citizens from Buxton, Hollis, Limington, Standish and Frye Island.
The Bonny Eagle High School Jazz Ensemble entertained the guests at Bonny Eagle High School.
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... THE BONNY ISLAND CONSPIRACY. The Marubeni case stems from ...
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NEW YORK, Dec. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Although the overall number of new FCPA enforcement actions fell somewhat in 2011 - just 16 corporate cases, compared with 20 in 2010 - US authorities have continued their aggressive and proactive enforcement of the statute and are now being joined by their foreign counterparts, according to global law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP.
Shearman & Sterling's semi-annual "Recent Trends and Patterns in FCPA Enforcement" report, part of the firm's renowned FCPA Digest (http://fcpa.shearman.com), showed that, despite the claims of some commentators and legislators, FCPA penalties against corporations have remained fairly stable and under $20 million in most cases.
... was the last corporate case involving the Bonny Island consortium and the first FCPA case against ...