The bribery allegations against Halliburton centring on Nigeria are to be widened to cover the last 20 years.
As most people are aware,US vice president Dick Cheney was its former chief executive and the Company was embrioled in controversy over its bidding for post war contracts in Iraq.
For a good analysis of history of Dick Cheney read this post from Andy Worthington
Despite having a CV that apparently explains his rise to power –- as an aide to three presidents, the youngest ever White House chief of staff, the second most powerful Republican in the House of Representatives, a cabinet secretary and the CEO of a giant corporation –- Dick Cheney is a “shadowy Zelig figure” with a “Wizard of Oz-like penchant for remaining behind the curtains of authority”. In his introduction, helpfully entitled “The evil genius in the corner”, Nichols reveals that Cheney’s pursuit of anonymity has been so unrelenting that Secret Service officials used to call him “Backseat”.
The investigations will centre around the former Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) who were involved in $10b worth of construction of Nigeria's liquified natural gas plant at Bonny Island
Africa Path reports
Investigators will also probe accusations of embezzlement by senior executives, and Halliburton’s relations with other multinationals, including Royal Dutch Shell.and adds
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).
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