iamhotep
28.01.09, 00:46
Co by ciemiezone, wybiedzone ludy, kobiety i dzieci, zrobily bez
naszej "pomocy", bez naszej demokracji, bez naszego ducha
praworzadnosci? Z cala pewnosci te niedemokratyczne kraje nie wiedza
jak wybierac swoich politykow, nie wiedza co dla nich dobre.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
HOUSTON — Halliburton Co., the world's second-largest oilfield-
services provider, has agreed to pay $559 million to settle federal
charges that employees bribed officials in Nigeria.
It would be the biggest fine by far of a U.S. company in a bribery
case, topping the $44 million that Baker Hughes Inc. paid last year
related to charges that it paid bribes in Kazahkstan.
Last September, former KBR chief executive Albert "Jack" Stanley
pleaded guilty to conspiring in a decade-long scheme to bribe
Nigerian government officials to obtain $6 billion in engineering
and construction contracts for a liquefied natural gas plant.
Stanley acknowledged in his plea that a four-company joint venture
that included KBR paid about $182 million to consulting companies
that then paid bribes to several Nigerian government officials.
Under federal law, it is illegal for U.S. companies to pay bribes to
win foreign business.
www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/other/01/27/0127halliburton.html
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No i nie zpominajamy o innych dzialaniach, oczywiscie w duchu prawa
i praworzadnosci, wymienionej firmy majacych na celu polepszanie
zycia obywateli niedomokratycznych krain.
1. Handel tania sila roboacza
"Thirteen Nepali men were recruited and held against their will for
thirteen months in a human trafficking scheme engineered and
perpetrated by Halliburton and its Jordanian contractor, according
to a lawsuit filed yesterday in California federal court.
The Nepali men, each between the ages of 18 and 27, were allegedly
hired as kitchen staff by the then-Halliburton subsidiary KBR and
its Jordanian subcontractor, Daoud & Partners. Once they arrived in
Jordan, however, their passports were seized and they were
dispatched to Iraq..."
2. Umyslne zatruwanie ludzi i srodowiska
"A Georgia man has filed a lawsuit against contractor KBR and its
former parent company, Halliburton, saying the companies exposed
everyone at Joint Base Balad in Iraq to unsafe water, food and
hazardous fumes from the burn pit there.
Joshua Eller, who worked as a civilian computer-aided drafting
technician with the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, said military
personnel, contractors and third-country nationals may have been
sickened by contamination at the largest U.S. installation in Iraq,
home to more than 30,000 service members, Defense Department
civilians and contractors.
“Defendants promised the United States government that they would
supply safe water for hygienic and recreational uses, safe food
supplies and properly operate base incinerators to dispose of
medical waste safely,” according to the lawsuit, filed Nov. 26 in
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. “Defendants
utterly failed to perform their promised duties.”
Eller and his attorneys are seeking to have the lawsuit declared a
class action...."
www.armytimes.com/news/2008/12/military_kbr_lawsuit_121508w/
3. Gwalt
A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR
coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are
covering up the incident.
Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple
men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard
in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left
Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job.
"Don't plan on working back in Iraq. There won't be a position here,
and there won't be a position in Houston," Jones says she was told.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court against Halliburton and its then-
subsidiary KBR, Jones says she was held in the shipping container
for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted
armed security guards outside her door, who would not let her leave.
Jones described the container as sparely furnished with a bed, table
and lamp.
abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=3977702&page=1
4. Niuemyslne zabojstwo
WASHINGTON