US Arrests Former Officials in Africa Bribery Schemes

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US Arrests Former Officials in Africa Bribery Schemes
Masood Farivar
WASHINGTON —

The bribery scheme was hatched in the halls of the United Nations in New York and spanned several continents.

Chi Ping Patrick Ho, Hong Kong’s former Home Secretary, and Cheikh Gadio, a one-time foreign minister of Senegal, plotted to bribe high-level African officials to secure business rights for a Shanghai-based energy and financial conglomerate.

Their targets: Idriss Deby, the long-time president of oil-rich Chad, and Sam Kutesa, a Ugandan foreign minister who served as president of the U.N. General Assembly from 2014 to 2015.

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