Nigeria To Charge Dick Cheney in $180 million Bribery Case, Issue Interpol Arrest Warrant

Vatic Note:   This is all very strange.  Remember the head of the Nigerian Bank is heavily tied into Mossad as we covered on here sometime ago.  He was also the father of the panty bomber that as also at Gitmo and released by Cheney who neglected to put his name on the terrorist watch list that result in TSA committing felony sexual assault on passangers, remember also, Israel was security for that airport that allowed the panty bomber to board with no luggage, a case paid ticket and silent, no talking at all. .  If we remember all that, then this below is much more significant than it appears on the surface.  Obviously Cheney was very much tied into the neocon dual israeli Khazars in our gov who created the Pax Americana study stating that 9-11 would be needed to accomplish their goals. 

Now if Cheney was heavily tied into Israel and one of the most powerful men in Nigeria is also tied into Israel through Mossad and his son was tied into cheney, than what the heck is going on???  Bribery in Nigeria is like normal course of business so why all this hoopla about Cheney who obviously is still walking free.   Is this to cover up something they don't want us to read???  That is beginning to look like a pattern.  Wikileaks has become the new issue by all the khazar owned press,  so is this an additional distraction?  I can't figure this one out.  If anyone has a clue, please use the comment section and share please. 

Nigeria To Charge Dick Cheney in $180 million Bribery Case, Issue Interpol Arrest Warrant

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By ActivistPost (Reporter), December 2, 2010, Before Its News, Source: Raw Story, John Byrne

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, 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:

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 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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