DOCUMENT: Charges Filed Against Former UK-based Trader In Oil Bribery Scheme Involving Nigerian Petroleum Officials | Sahara Reporters NNPCgroup
A former United Kingdom-based trader for Glencore Plc, Anthony Stimler, has pleaded guilty to participating in an international scheme to bribe officials in Nigeria to win favourable contracts from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.Prosecutors said millions of dollars in bribes were paid to officials in Nigeria, in exchange for NNPC awarding oil contracts and providing “more lucrative grades of oil on more favorable delivery terms.
“At all times relevant to this Information, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation was a Nigerian state-owned and state-controlled oil company headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria. The Nigerian government directly owned and controlled NNPC, which performed government functions.
“It was a part and an object of the conspiracy that ANTHONY STIMLER, the defendant, and others known and unknown, would and did, while in the territory of the United States, willfully and corruptly make use of the mails and a means and instrumentality of interstate commerce and do an act in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, and authorization of the payment of money, and offer, gift, promise to give, and authorize the giving of a thing of value to a foreign official, and to a...
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