Malaysian military contractor Leonard Francis has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for bribing US naval officers with decadent gifts and services.
Leonard Francis has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in one of the worst corruption scandals in US Navy history. Leonard Francis has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in the worst ever corruption scandal the US Navy has experienced.A federal judge ordered Francis to pay $US20 million in restitution to the US Navy. Malaysia n military contractor Leonard Francis has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in the worst ever corruption scandal the US Navy has experienced.
A federal judge ordered Francis to pay $US20 million in restitution to the US Navy and to forfeit $US35 million in ill-gotten gains on Tuesday, local time, according to the US Attorney's office for the Southern District of California.Francis's business GDMA supplied food, water and fuel to vessels and was a key contact for American navy ships at ports across Asia for decades.
It was all for an exchange, whereby officers concealed the scheme in which Francis would overcharge for supplying ships or charge for fake services at ports he controlled in South-East Asia.A retired Navy admiral and eight other current and former military officers, were bribed with lavish perks and sex, according to an unsealed indictment in 'Fat Leonard' case.
Francis pleaded guilty in 2015 to offering bribes to naval officers which aimed to steer work to his shipyards in Asia-Pacific ports and overcharging the navy $US35 million.
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