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Namibia Widens Probe Over Chinese Payments to Domestic Company

August 6, 2009

Bloomberg

Anti-graft authorities in Namibia said they widened a corruption probe into a domestic company that allegedly received payments in return for influencing the award of government contracts.

Teko Trading CC, a Windhoek-based company, is being investigated for “possible irregularities” over a tender to extend a railway line in northern Namibia, Anti-Corruption Commission Director Paulus Noa said in an interview yesterday.

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