More guilty pleas in the Nexus - Vietnam bribery case
March 18th, 2010
A Philadelphia company and its executives being prosecuted for bribing officials of the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam have pleaded guilty, according to a press release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office here.
The pleas were entered on March 16 in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania federal court.
Pleading guilty to conspiracy and violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other acts are the following:
* The company, Nexus Technologies, Inc., pleaded guilty to everything.
* Nam Nguyen, 54, the CEO, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, FCPA violations, the Travel Act violation, and money laundering.
* Kim Nguyen, 41, Nam’s sister, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, substantive FCPA violations, and money laundering.
* An Nguyen, 34, Nam and Kim’s brother, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, FCPA violations, the Travel Act violation, and money laundering.
Another company executive who’s not related with the rest of them, Joseph T. Lukas, had pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy and to violation of the FCPA (see here).
The list of bribe recipients, as alleged in court documents (read more here), are: VietSov Petro, PetroVietnam Gas Company (in Vietnamese: Tập đoàn Dầu khí Quốc gia Việt Nam), Vung Tau Airport, Southern Flight Management Center, (in Vietnamese: Trung tâm Quản lý Bay Miền Nam) and a tourism and trading company that allegedly belongs the Ministry of Public Safety.







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