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Nigeria To Charge Dick Cheney In $180 Million Bribery Case, Issue Interpol Arrest Warrant

source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/nigeria-issue-arrest-warrant-dick-cheney-bribery-case/

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The energy services company Dick Cheney ran prior to becoming Vice President of the United States was atop the tongue of liberals each time it was awarded a contract in Iraq.

Now the company's name, Halliburton, is being spoken somewhere else: Nigeria.

According to a story filed late Wednesday(http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-12-01/nigeria-to-charge-dick-cheney-in-pip...), Cheney will be indicted in a Nigerian bribery case as part of an investigation into an alleged $180 million bribery scandal.

"Last week, Nigeria arrested at least 23 officials from companies including Halliburton, Saipem, Technip and a former subsidiary of Panalpina Welttransport Holding AG in connection with alleged illegal payments to Nigerian officials. Those detained were all freed on bail on Nov. 29," Bloomberg News' Elisha Bala-Gbogbo wrote.

"Authorities in the West African nation are probing Halliburton, Saipem and Technip for the alleged payment of $180 million in bribes to win a $6 billion liquefied natural-gas contract," Bala-Gbogbo added. "Panalpina is being investigated for illegal payments it allegedly made to Nigerian customs officials on behalf of Royal Dutch Shell Plc."

The prosecuting counsel for the country's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said that indictments will be handed down in the next three days and that an arrest warrant for Cheney "will be issued and transmitted through Interpol."

Adds Bloomberg, "Obla said charges will be filed against current and former chief executive officers of Halliburton, including Cheney, who was CEO from 1995 to 2000, and its former unit KBR Inc., based in Houston, Texas; Technip SA, Europe’s second-largest oilfield- services provider; Eni SpA, Italy’s biggest oil company; and Saipem Construction Co., a unit of Eni. Obla didn’t identify the former officials whom he said held office when the alleged bribes were paid."

A spokesman for Cheney declined to comment.

The US Securities and Exchange Committee probe focused on the deal as early as 2004. Wrote The Washington Post at the time:
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35486-2004Jun11.html)

The Nigerian project, started in the early 1990s, was worth almost $5 billion to TSKJ, a partnership that included a KBR predecessor, as well as companies from France, Japan and the Netherlands.

At issue are payments made to Tristar, a Gibraltar company that had a consulting arrangement with a corporation formed by TSKJ to "administer the contracts and execute the work" in Nigeria, a Halliburton spokeswoman said in response to questions.

KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton, was formed when Halliburton acquired Dresser Industries Inc. in 1998. It was a combination of Halliburton's Brown & Root and Dresser's M.W. Kellogg Co. Officials from the SEC and Cheney's office declined to comment.

Early on Thursday, Halliburton said(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/12/02/bloomberg1376-LCSK1K6TTDS801-2FON5J2K50U6QS8ACM9RA159SE.DTL#ixzz16xiDvrD6) they hadn't seen the new charges, but still denied their involvement.

"Halliburton's oil-field services operations in Nigeria have never in any way been part of the LNG project and none of the Halliburton employees have ever had any connection to or participation in that project," Tara Mullee Agard, a spokeswoman for the Houston-based company, said in an e-mailed response to Bloomberg.

Added Bloomberg: "Halliburton Co., the world's second- largest oilfield-services provider, said it hasn't seen any amended charges by Nigerian authorities who plan to indict current and former employees in a bribery scandal."
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63 comments // Nigeria To Charge Dick Cheney In $180 Million Bribery Case, Issue Interpol Arrest Warrant

  • MoonLoon
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      MoonLoon  

    • The Nigerian Federal Gov't. is rumored to sue for $500 million. Here is one more funny tidbit. The bribe was for building the Bonny Island LNG gas plant. The transfer of the land ownership has been challenged in Nigerian court, guess who won?

    • 1 year ago
  • MoonLoon
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      MoonLoon  

    • I am a little late posting; please accept my apologies. Nigerian EFCC authorities entered the Halliburton office in Lagos and proceeded to beat the security man and female receptionist. They then approached a married woman, HAL employee, and beat her and stripped her naked in the office, in front of colleagues. They then pushed and beat other staff members while confiscating the records. About 10 employees were arrested, none of which are involved in the bribery scheme. This an attempt to silence Halliburton regarding the receipents of the bribes, which involves very, very high level politicians in the Nigerian elite. EFCC is the Economic Financial Crimes Commission and serves much like the S.S. during the Nazi regime. Not one Nigerian has been arrested for accepting the bribes; put that fact in your hookahs and smoke it! These were my friends, Nigerians and expats, beaten and molested by a corrupt gov't. while the U.S. remains silent. Then the fools on Current lack the brainpower to demand an accounting by our elected leaders. Do you idiots realise that Nigerian politicians are granted immunity from prosecution? It is only the foreigners that are subject to prosecution! Welcome to my World!

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  

    • yes, but even 'justice' has been outsourced in America. If another country has facts, which lead them to believe and prosecute Dick Cheney, our Justice Department should be handling it in America.

      Dick Cheney was bad for America. He should not be allowed to walk off into the sunset, if he has committed a crime. That's an "Assault on Reason" and US.

    • 1 year ago
  • Dejan_Croatia
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      Dejan_Croatia  

    • yes!!! finally!! people have to realize they have the power not these rich assholes, also people have to realize that they should not fuck up their country for money when their people suffer, so i am glad Nigeria is doing this! thank you

    • 1 year ago
  • NorCalDave
    • +1
      NorCalDave  

    • Clap him in irons and shackles!!! Send him over, expedite his saggy old rightwing butt to Africa!!!! Its about time somebody charged this scumbag with something!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • im1mjrpain
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      im1mjrpain  

    • Nothing is going to happen to Dick, so everyone can calm down. Keep in mind Henry Kissenger is a wanted war criminal accused of Complicity in coup against Chilean government plus the "killing, injury and displacement" of three million people during Vietnam War. He's still chillin.

    • 1 year ago
  • Mark701
  • RMattnerTours
    • +2
      RMattnerTours  

    • They will never make this stick, this is one of the most powerful of evil people on this planet. We are talking about someone who shot his own friend in the face and nothing came of it.

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
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      ayipis  

    • I would bet a million dollars..just like EVERY liberal crusade to imprison or impeach, save this or that..

      it would end in a wishful fruitless fizzle..hey at least they get to WISH..LOL

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
    • +3
      CalgarC  
    • ayipis:

      i have had quite a nice time trolling you... and i will continue to do so, but god damn you have to be the dumbest person to ever own a computer...

    • 1 year ago
  • Radical_Centrist
  • keithponder
  • EdJoyProductions
  • grabacontroller
  • bike10
  • Radical_Centrist
  • coolplanet
    • +3
      coolplanet  

    • GOOD!!!!!
      We need many more countries to wage lawsuits on these traitors, war criminals and earth destroyers.
      Bring it on world.

    • 1 year ago
  • KSirys
  • boothanew
  • uppityprogressive
  • idealist
  • telcod
  • vixxxen618
  • CalgarC
  • EdJoyProductions
  • CalgarC
  • MisterPonder
    • +4
      MisterPonder  

    • If InterPol goes after Julian Assange, they damn better well enforce the warrant on this dick too.

      What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
  • ezrierin
    • +1
      ezrierin  

    • Dick will call Barack and say:
      “Now listen up boy… harrumph, cough, ba, ba, Barack, there are a couple of things I want to talk with you about.”
      “Ahh…go ahead, I am…all ears.”
      “OK, Barack now that’s the first thing, you cave too fast see. Everyone is going to figure out you are one of us…ahhh, the help if you know what I mean.”
      “Yes, sir…I got you.”
      “See that is exact…mmm, oh OK, well watch it with that. Now the second thing is this Nigeria bull crap. Tell them, Niggerians that just as a matter of national security, blah, blah, the American people would never stand for it… you know we talked about this kind of crap coming up when I gave…ah loaned you the keys to the White House.”
      “Ah…yes sir, I do remember…and it’s already taken care of.”
      “Good, good…, so ah, how are the wife and the two piccaninnies?”

    • 1 year ago
  • dreamsenvoy
  • ezrierin
    • +1
      ezrierin  
    • dreamsenvoy:

      Thank you! Also, watch Robocheney get a new heart. It will be a perfect tissue match as his evil friends are already looking through the physical records of soldiers to insure that. As soon as a pefect match is found, there will be another soilder "killed in action." You watch. I have been predicting this for a while now.

    • 1 year ago
  • keithponder
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      keithponder  
    • ezrierin:

      Dick:
      “Now listen up boy… harrumph, cough, ba, ba, Barack, there are a couple of things I want to talk with you about.”

      Barack
      :“Ahh…go ahead, I'm all ears
      LOL. hilarious.
      ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Tell them, Niggerians that just as a matter of national security, blah, blah, the American people would never stand for it… you know we talked about this kind of crap coming up when I gave…ah loaned you the keys to the White House.”
      “Ah…yes sir, I do remember…and it’s already taken care of.”
      “Good, good…, so ah, how are the wife and the two piccaninnies?
      -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Niggerians and piccaninnies is never funny.

      Keep the children out of it please.

    • 1 year ago
  • keithponder
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      keithponder  
    • dreamsenvoy:

      Robocheney would definitely call O'bamas' childeren "piccaninnies"
      ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Piccaninies ? Not funny at all.

      Keep the children out of it please.

    • 1 year ago
  • dreamsenvoy
  • keithponder
  • dreamsenvoy
    • 0
      dreamsenvoy  
    • keithponder:

      You have lost your sence of clarity,if you were to read my post you will see i'm not a reactionist.Further your attemps to make a mountain not even out of a mole hill will not be well for you as a crusade.It is your assumptions that an envoy of dream would be a nightmare(to you).Did you even read the post? or preoccupied with reacting?now it is to late to have others view it as well,isnt that convientent and all(for you)....You Sir are a King among subgeniuses

    • 1 year ago
  • MoonLoon
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      MoonLoon  
    • keithponder:

      It is your Nigerian buddy. Nigerians typically call their children, "Pikins". I assume that this is the origin of the term "piccaninnies, but I am not a professional linguist. I can see that the term piccaninnes could be perceived as racist and disrespectful, but its origins are a respectful term used in Nigeria for "children". Just wanted to let everyone know.

    • 1 year ago
  • Itsbatman_Durr
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      Itsbatman_Durr  

    • he is a crook, but the thread and story are completely misleading. when it happens, then lets talk about it, but lets not take what one person said who may or may not even be in the loop of decision makers as gospel and start spinning off about interpol arrest warrants just because that media whore at wikileaks has one out on him. cheney is a goon, a crook, an amoral reprobate that should not only serve time for his crimes of greed against humanity but if there is a hell should be con-scribed there for eternity, but this kind of thread/story is just silly and bitter back sniping until something is actually done.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • toyotabedzrock
    • +6
      toyotabedzrock  
    • ThatCrazyLibertarian:

      I doubt we do. But the Interpol warrent will make it so that he won't be able to travel safly to any country thats not in the middle east, Africa, China, South America I think.

      In other words no country where there is a majority of white people will be safe.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • EdJoyProductions
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • EdJoyProductions
  • dreamsenvoy
  • ayipis
    • -11
      ayipis  

    • I am so pissed im going to have a "wear purple" awareness day..THAT should fix cheney..

      bar will be open till 12 LOL..

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
  • oppressed1
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      oppressed1  

    • You people are retarded if you think Dick Cheney would ever be close enough to the bribe to charge him in a normal court of law. The top stay away from the slime so when the house of cards collapse it doesnt come down on them.

    • 1 year ago
  • toyotabedzrock
  • kennymotown
  • ayipis
  • toyotabedzrock
  • kennymotown
  • CalgarC
  • toyotabedzrock
  • ayipis
    • -11
      ayipis  
    • toyotabedzrock:

      LOL..ahhh the liberal wishful thinking..

      too many desires and wants..i guess you guys have to finish one first before you start with the next..

      but at any rate, good luck and Cheney is waiting for you...i think he is waiting close to 10 years now..

    • 1 year ago
  • toyotabedzrock
  • ozoneocean
  • CalgarC
  • CalgarC
  • CalgarC
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