In this exclusive report, we examine how international companies and politicians ran Africa ’s biggest corruption scandal on the back of a $6bn gas export project

Business Day

US Vice-President Dick Cheney is embroiled in Africa’s biggest corruption scandal following an admission of guilty by his business associate Albert Jackson Stanley in September for coordinating over $180m of bribes on behalf of a consortium led by Halliburton, the US’s biggest and most profitable oil and gas services company.

According to documents obtained by The Africa Report as well as eye-witness accounts, Halliburton and three other companies paid the bribes to win a contract to build a $6bn liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project on Nigeria ’s Bonny Island . Run by Nigeria LNG (NLNG), this is Africa ’s biggest industrial project and should be its most profitable.

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This entry was posted on Monday, May 25th, 2009 at 5:55 pm and is filed under Issues in the News, Media, News.