Corruption affecting the maritime industry can add up to 15% of total transport and logistics costs and cost hundreds of millions of USD$ from gross domestic product, a case study […]
Bribery
Venezuela hands over “Fat Leonard”
When Leonard Glenn Francis, the man at the center of the “Fat Leonard” bribery case that rocked the Navy, last surfaced in public, it was back in September 2022 when he was arrested at the Simon Bolivar International in Caracas, Venezuela. As we reported at that time, he was detained on the basis of an Interpol red notice to await extradition to the United States.
It generally supposed that Venezuela’s Maduras regime would not speed up the extradition but would hang on to Francis as a bargaining...
https://www.marinelog.com/news/venezuela-hands-over-fat-leonard/
Was bribery rampant in 20th century maritime shipping?
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FreightWaves explores the archives of American Shipper’s nearly 70-year-old collection of shipping and maritime publications to showcase interesting freight stories of long ago.
In this week’s edition, from the February 1981 issue, FreightWaves explores a claim of bribery during a court case.
Bribery
Bribes to shipowner representatives, related businesses, and regulators were...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/was-bribery-rampant-in-20th-century-maritime-shipping
Former Military Sealift Command Director Sentenced to Prison for Bribery and Lying to Investigators
The former Director of Operations of the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) office in Busan, South Korea, was sentenced last week to five years in prison for his role…
Former FMCSA investigator charged with bribery, extortion
A former Department of Transportation employee from South Texas was charged Monday by a federal grand jury in Houston with bribery and extortion, according to the Department of Justice.
Patrick Gorena, 54, a former investigator for the DOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration office in Weslaco, Texas, is charged with agreeing to minimize purported safety violations he encountered while auditing a local trucking company in exchange for a $2,000 bribe.
On July 20, Gorena performed a safety...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/former-fmcsa-investigator-charged-with-bribery-extortion
Another prison term in long-running Navy bribery case
Former U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Brooks Alonzo Parks has become the latest defendant to receive a prison term in the so called “Fat Leonard Affair” — the wide-ranging corruption and fraud investigation involving foreign defense contractor Leonard Glenn Francis and his Singapore-based company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA).
Parks was sentenced October 30 to 27 months in prison and $25,405.76 in restitution for federal bribery conspiracy charges by U.S. District Judge Janis L. Sammartino.
The...
https://www.marinelog.com/news/another-prison-term-in-long-running-navy-bribery-case/
Sargeant Marine to pay $16.6M after pleading guilty to bribery schemes in South America
Sargeant Marine, an asphalt shipping company based in Boca Raton, Florida, pleaded guilty to […] The post Sargeant Marine to pay $16.6M after pleading guilty to bribery schemes in South…
Guilty plea in Navy ship husbanding bribery case
The owner and Chief Executive Officer of a Republic of Korea–based company, DK Marine, that provided ship husbanding services to the U.S. Navy pleaded guilty Friday for his role in a bribery conspiracy.
The U.S. Department of Justice reports that Sung Yol “David” Kim, 49, a citizen of the Republic of Korea, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery before U.S. District Judge Mark A. Goldsmith of the Eastern District of Michigan. Sentencing has been scheduled for Nov. 17, 2020,...
https://www.marinelog.com/news/guilty-plea-in-navy-ship-husbanding-bribery-case/
Samsung Heavy Industries to Pay USD 75 Mn in Penalties Over Bribery Case
Samsung Heavy Industries made “corrupt bribe payments” to win drillship contract.