Elisha Bala-Gbogbo
Bloomberg
December 17, 2010
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Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — Nigeria withdrew corruption charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and companies including Halliburton Co. after the company agreed to pay a fine and repatriate funds, a spokesman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said.
“The charges against Dick Cheney and all the others were dropped today,” Femi Babafemi said in a telephone interview in Abuja, the capital.
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Halliburton, where Cheney was chief executive officer until 2000, offered to pay $120 million in fines and repatriate an additional $130 million to Nigeria, he said. A person who answered a call to Halliburton’s Houston office said no one was available to comment.
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