Nigeria: $15.9m penalty for bribes
Issue 253
- 03 May 2013
| 1 minute read
Houston-based oil services company Parker Drilling agreed in mid-April to pay the US authorities $15.9m to settle foreign bribery charges. The company was accused of making a payment to a third party while knowing that it would be used to influence a Nigerian government panel’s decision on whether the company had broken local customs laws.
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