US + Halliburton + Cheney + Shell & Nigeria = corruption
on May 26, 2008
Category: USA, Conflict Mining/Resources, Nigeria, Niger Delta
The bribery allegations against Halliburton’s actions in Nigeria during the Sani Abacha dicatorship have been widened to cover the past 20 years and will include investigating Halliburton’s (and presumably Dick Cheney’s - see video Cheney exposed) relationship with Shell and possibly other oil multinationals operating in Nigeria.
Criminal investigations of former Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), for alleged bribery in the construction of Nigeria’s $10 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant on Bonny Island, have been widened to cover the past 20 years of Halliburton’s operations in Nigeria. Investigators will also probe accusations of embezzlement by senior executives, and Halliburton’s relations with other multinationals, including Royal Dutch Shell.
Halliburton recently dismissed two of its most senior executives, Robert Stanley and William Chaudin, on suspicion of embezzling $5 million from a Nigerian energy project.
The initial claim, which started the investigation some six years ago, was that Halliburton and others working on a gas export project conspired to win a $5 billion construction contract in 1995 by establishing a $180 million slush-fund to bribe Nigerian officials, and to reward Western contractors between 1994 and 2002, which includes the period when US Vice-President Dick Cheney was Halliburton’s chairman and CEO (1995-2000). Such payments are illegal under a 1997 convention barring bribery of foreign public officials in commercial negotiations, adopted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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8 Comments so far
1. Mwangi - the Displaced African
May 26th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
In the court of public perception I think the jury’s been out on Cheney and the whole Bush administration’s integrity for a helluva long time.
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2. Chxta
May 26th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Two words: na today?
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3. Sokari
May 26th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
mwangi @ i watched an interview with gore vidal the other day and his description of bush et al is the best i have heard yet “a nest of ninnies”
Chxta @ point taken - its just an update that the case is now going to go back 20 years and include Shell and others. i thought it worthwhile reporting!
4. Yobachi
May 26th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
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5. Sokari
May 26th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
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6. Beauty
May 27th, 2008 at 11:35 am
I re-connected with a great human being, elain x also known as “business voodoo” (a play on a quote from george bush sr) “voodoo economics.” … he coined that term back in the 80s. after the deregulation and mastermind of iran-contra, he knew voodoo economics all too well. (and he taught his son very well!). I don’t think we are surprised with this blog topic. Greed and greed and greed. I will stop now.
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7. Sokari
May 27th, 2008 at 11:37 am
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8. Dear Kitty. Some blog :: Dick Cheney-Halliburton corruption scandal in Nigeria :: May :: 2008
May 27th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
[…] Cheney was also at the helm when, on March 18, 1999, Halliburton and the consortium paid $37.5 million to British lawyer Jeffrey Tesler, who served as a consultant to KBR after it was formed in a 1998 merger between Halliburton and Dresser Industries, which Cheney engineered. This and three other similar payments to Tesler are some of the key points in the investigation by French, British, US and Nigerian police. See also here. […]