Ex-NNPC official convicted in US over $2.1 bribery scandal
A United States judge has found Paulinus Okoronkwo, a Nigerian lawyer based in Los Angeles, guilty of receiving a $2.1 million bribe from a Chinese oil company to secure drilling rights in Nigeria. He was said to have accepted the bribe while serving as an official of the state-owned oil firm, NNPC,...
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