Colombia wants US engineering executive extradited in 'biggest corruption scandal in history'

by Adriaan Alsema July 14, 2019

A Colombian judge on Friday requested the arrest and extradition of a US engineering executive for his alleged role in what the prosecution calls the “biggest corruption scandal in history.”

A judge asked the international police organization Interpol to issue a red notice for Masoud Deidehban, a former program director of CB&I, which is now part of Texas-based engineering firm McDermott International.

The judge also ordered the incarceration of former CB&I CEO Philip K. Asherman, the Prosecutor General’s Office announced on Twitter.

Both men allegedly joined executives of Colombia’s state-run oil company in an unprecedented corporate heist that led to at least $2 billion in losses at Ecopetrol’s oil refinery in coastal city Cartagena.

As part of the refinery’s upgrade, the white collars allegedly spent $16 million on prostitutes, which was written off as a business expense among other exotic excesses, according to the prosecution.


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Philip K. Asherman
CB&I Chairman and CEO Philip K. Asherman, May 23, 2014 in The Woodlands, TX.