Halliburton exec on fraud charges
Halliburton exec on fraud charges
BBC News
Thursday, 17 March
A former employee of a Halliburton subsidiary has been indicted on charges of defrauding the US military of more than $3.5m for fuel in Iraq.
Jeff Alex Mazon, 36, an ex-procurement manager for Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), is due to appear in a federal court in Atlanta on 10 counts of fraud.
Kuwaiti businessman Ali Hijazi has also been indicted on the same charges.
Halliburton, once run by Vice-President Dick Cheney, is under renewed pressure over its work for the Pentagon in Iraq.