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LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency on Tuesday charged former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney over a bribery scheme involving oil-services firm Halliburton Co. during time he served as its top official, a spokesman said.
The charges stem from a case involving as much as $180 million allegedly paid in bribes to Nigerian officials to win a contract to build a $6 billion liquefied-natural-gas plant in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta, said Femi Babafemi, a spokesman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Terrence O’Donnell, a lawyer representing Cheney, denied the allegations.
