French sleaze inquiry targets Halliburton
Saturday October 11, 2003, The Guardian :
The public prosecutor's office in Paris said yesterday it was opening a formal judicial inquiry into alleged corruption by a French engineering firm and the American oil services giant Halliburton, which was headed "until two years ago" by VP Dick 'Chicanery' Cheney.
The investigation is the first of its kind in France under laws introduced as part of an international convention on cross-border corruption signed in 1997 by some 35 countries, including the US.
The financial crimes squad in Paris believes a French oil and gas engineering firm, Technip, and particularly the Halliburton subsidiary KBR were jointly involved during the 1990s in the payment of up to $200m of under-the-counter "commissions" in relation to a huge gas contract in Nigeria.
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