Nigeria to try Dick Cheney for corruption

A bit of interesting breaking news from the wires: Nigeria’s anti-corruption commission is set to unveil a warrant for former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. During his time at Haliburton, the company is alleged to gotten wrapped up in a dollars-for-LNG scandal in the country. Bloomberg has the story: Nigeria will file charges against former ...

By , International Crisis Group’s senior analyst for Colombia.

A bit of interesting breaking news from the wires: Nigeria's anti-corruption commission is set to unveil a warrant for former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. During his time at Haliburton, the company is alleged to gotten wrapped up in a dollars-for-LNG scandal in the country. Bloomberg has the story:

A bit of interesting breaking news from the wires: Nigeria’s anti-corruption commission is set to unveil a warrant for former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. During his time at Haliburton, the company is alleged to gotten wrapped up in a dollars-for-LNG scandal in the country. Bloomberg has the story:

Nigeria will file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and officials from five foreign companies including Halliburton Co. over a $180 million bribery scandal, a prosecutor at the anti-graft agency said.

Indictments will be lodged in a Nigerian court “in the next three days,” Godwin Obla, prosecuting counsel at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, said in an interview today at his office in Abuja, the capital. An arrest warrant for Cheney “will be issued and transmitted through Interpol,” the world’s biggest international police organization, he said.

Nigeria might sound like an odd place for this to be coming from, but the country’s anti-corruption commission actually has quite the record of competance in breaking corporate and government scandals. So if you were wondering, this is "for real."

Elizabeth Dickinson is International Crisis Group’s senior analyst for Colombia.

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