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‘Yet another sordid chapter in the murky annals of Halliburton might well lead to the indictment of Dick Cheney by a French court on charges of bribery, money-laundering and misuse of corporate assets. At the heart of the matter is a $6 billion gas liquification factory
built in Nigeria on behalf of oil mammoth Shell by Halliburton - the company
Cheney headed before becoming Vice President - in partnership with a large
French petro-engineering company, Technip. Nigeria has been rated by the
anticorruption watchdog Transparency International as the second-most corrupt
country in the world, surpassed only by Bangladesh. One of France's best-known investigating magistrates, Judge Renaud van
Ruymbeke - who came to fame by unearthing major French campaign finance
scandals in the 1990s that led to a raft of indictments - has been conducting a
probe of the Nigeria deal since October. And, three days before Christmas, the
Paris daily Le Figaro front-paged the news that Judge van Ruymbeke had
notified the Justice Ministry that Cheney might be among those eventually
indicted as a result of his investigation.’
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