Feds investigating another Navy bribery scandal
By Geoff Ziezulewicz
Oct 13, 05:26 PM
A U.S. Navy official in charge of port service contracts for the U.S. 5th Fleet in Bahrain has admitted to taking tens of thousands of dollars in bribes from the owner of a company providing those services, according to recently unsealed court records of a probe that carries stark similarities to the Navy’s “Fat Leonard” scandal.
Revelations around the case, first reported by The Washington Post, were laid bare last week with the unsealing of an arrest warrant for Frank Rafaraci, the CEO of Multinational Logistics Services, or MLS, a company that has received more than $100 million in contracts to service U.S. ships in port since 2013.
Rafaraci, a U.S. citizen who lives in Italy and the United Arab Emirates, was arrested in an unidentified country Sept. 27 at the request of the U.S. government, according to court records.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-navy/2021/10/13/feds-investigating-another-navy-bribery-scandal/
