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Halliburton: backschisch in Nigeria
-->Halliburton admits bribes 'may have been paid' in Nigeria
Mon Nov 8,12:53 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US oil service firm Halliburton has acknowledged that improper payments"may have been made" to Nigerian officials through a consortium of which it was a member.
In a document dated Friday and filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (news - web sites), Halliburton said the US Justice Department (news - web sites) had expanded its investigation into potential bribes through the TSKJ consortium, a matter also under review in France and Nigeria.
"We understand from the ongoing governmental and other investigations that payments may have been made to Nigerian officials," the company said in the SEC filing.
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The alleged payments, many of which occurred when Halliburton was being run by Dick Cheney (news - web sites), now the US vice president, helped a consortium including the US group to win a 12 billion dollar contract to build a gas terminal.
<ul> ~ http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041108/bs_afp/us_oil_company_0411</ul>
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