Senior officer, NCIS agent are among those charged in Navy bribery scandal

Source: Washington Post

Senior officer, NCIS agent are among those charged in Navy bribery scandal
By Craig Whitlock, Saturday, October 19, 7:28 PM

The U.S. Navy is being rocked by a bribery scandal that federal investigators say has reached high into the officer corps and exposed a massive overbilling scheme run by an Asian defense contractor in exchange for prostitutes and other kickbacks.

Among those arrested on corruption charges are a senior agent for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and a Navy commander who escaped Cambodia’s “killing fields” as a child only to make a triumphant return to the country decades later as the skipper of a U.S. destroyer. The investigation has also ensnared a Navy captain who was relieved of his ship’s command this month in Japan.

The chief executive and another company official of the Singapore-based defense contractor, Glenn Defense Marine Asia, were arrested last month at a San Diego harborside hotel after federal investigators lured them to the United States by arranging a sham meeting with Navy officials, according to court records and people involved in the case.

The unfolding investigation is shaping up as the biggest fraud case in years for the Navy. Federal prosecutors allege that Glenn Defense Marine, which has serviced and supplied Navy ships and submarines at ports around the Pacific for a quarter century, routinely overbilled for everything from tugboats to fuel to sewage disposal.


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