Halliburton: No evidence against US ex-VP – EFCC

Contrary to speculations in the media that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was set to prosecute former Vice-President of United States, Dick Cheney, over the multi-million dollar Halliburton bribe scandal, the Commission has said that it is unlikely that Cheney will be charged.

The Commission’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, on Monday told THE PUNCH that though the Commission was investigating the Halliburton scandal, it had not found any evidence that might warrant charging Cheney for any corruption offence.“Yes, we are investigating the Halliburton bribery scandal and I told some foreign media so. But so far we have not uncovered any evidence of Dick Cheney’s complicity to warrant bringing charges. In fact, there is a remote chance that we will charge him,” Babafemi said.He said whatever the Commission uncovered in its investigations would be made public.Local and international media had been awashed with reports that the EFCC was planning to charge Cheney for alleged involvement in the $180m scandal.The EFCC last week raided Halliburton’s office in Nigeria and invited several of its senior employees for questioning. One senior employee each from Saipem Contracting Nigeria Ltd and Technip Offshore Nigeria Ltd were also questioned by the EFCC along with the 10 Halliburton staff arrested during the last week’s raid.Halliburton is being investigated for allegedly bribing prominent Nigerian officials with over N27b to facilitate winning of the contract to build the Nigerian Liquefied Gas plant in Bonny Island, Rivers State by its consortium, TSKJ. The bribery saga was said to have spanned over 20 years and allegedly involved even some heads of states and their cronies.But Halliburton said last year that it had “reason to believe” payments may have been made to Nigerian officials by agents of its TSKJ consortium, which built the Bonny Island facility.

Albert “Jack” Stanley, a former KBR [Kellog, Brown and Roots] chief executive officer who had worked under Cheney when he headed Halliburton, pleaded guilty in 2008 to charges stemming from a scheme to bribe Nigerian officials for work on the Bonny Island plant.

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Atiku!

Poor EFCC.
A vampire running out of blood-sucking sources.

End of story - useless people and country - what was the initial fuss about