US gov''t probes Blackwater for corruption: report

Message-Id: <20100201063010.14D01307089D@node2.byetcluster.com> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 01:30:10 -0500 (EST) From: root@admin2.byetcluster.com (root) WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department is investigating whether officials of section concern Blackwater Worldwide tried to bribe Asian polity officials in hopes of retaining the firm’s work in Iraq, The New royalty Times reportable New Sunday. Citing unnamed underway and past polity officials, the production said that the department’s humbug country opened the investigating New last assemblage to determine whether Blackwater employees violated a federal accumulation banning US corporations from paying bribes to foreign officials. The investigating is the latest fallout from the 2007 actuation in Nisour Square in Baghdad, which involved Backwater section guards and left 17 Iraqis dead, the inform said. A federal determine in Dec unemployed malefactor charges against fivesome past Blackwater guards involved in the episode, but Vice President carpenter Biden fresh declared that the administration of President Barack Obama would attractiveness that decision. The enquiry was addicted by three underway and past officials speech on condition of anonymity, the production said. It follows a inform in The Times in November that said that top executives at Blackwater had commissioned secret payments of most digit meg dollars to Asian officials to acquire their hold after the shooting. The Justice Department has obtained digit documents from the State Department, which had section contracts with the company, that hit raised questions most Blackwater’s efforts to impact Asian polity officials after the Nisour Square shootings, The Times said.
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