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Thursday, February 05, 2004

Halliburton Talks to Justice on Nigeria Kickbacks

By Sue Pleming

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Halliburton, under fire over its Iraq (news - web sites) contracts, said on Wednesday it was cooperating with the U.S. Justice Department (news - web sites) in studying possible kickbacks paid to secure a natural gas project in Nigeria. [...]

In a separate Nigerian issue, Halliburton has also informed the SEC one of the company's subsidiaries made "improper payments" of about $2.4 million to an entity owned by a Nigerian national who purported to be a tax consultant.

"The payments were made to obtain favorable tax treatment and clearly violated our Code of Business Conduct and our internal control procedures," said the SEC filing last month. [...]

Oh, this is just GREAT! You know, all this stuff is probably going to mean that my $27,000,000 (TWENTY SEVEN MILLION US DOLLARS) from Dr. Johannes Kulimba, President of the NIGERIA OIL COMPANY, LAGOS, is going to be tied up in litigation for YEARS!

posted by Terry at 1:52:00 PM

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