Sunday, March 8, 2009

UK arrest in Nigerian bribe case


A federal grand jury in Texas has charged Jeffrey Tesler with helping to channel money from kellogg, brown and root, a former Halliburton subsidiary. It is thought that he was involved in moving millions of dollars in bribes to Nigerian officials to win contracts for an American construcion firm. He was arrested at a business adress in Tottenham, North London, on Thursday. He is alleged to have channelled money to Nigerian officials in order to obtain contracts valued at more than $6bn.



This article relates to the internal political issues working against Nigeria. The article states that the bribes described involved Nigerian officials. Corruption in Nigeria has become a frequent and well publicized problem that has plagued the country.
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