SAN DIEGO: A Malaysian defence contractor nicknamed “Fat Leonard' who orchestrated one of the largest bribery scandals in US military history has been arrested in Venezuela after fleeing before his sentencing, authorities said on Wednesday (Sep 21). The international manhunt for Leonard Glenn Francis end
SAN DIEGO: A Malaysian defence contractor nicknamed “Fat Leonard" who orchestrated one of the largest bribery scandals in US military history has been arrested in Venezuela after fleeing before his sentencing, authorities said on Wednesday .
The international manhunt for Leonard Glenn Francis ended with his arrest by Venezuelan authorities on Tuesday morning at the Caracas airport as he was about to board an airplane for another country, the US Marshals Service said. The arrest came on the eve of his scheduled sentencing in a federal court in California for a bribery scheme that lasted more than a decade and involved dozens of US Navy officers.Francis was under home arrest in San Diego when he cut off his GPS ankle bracelet and escaped on
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