BEIJING — Namibian prosecutors investigating allegations of kickbacks on government contracts with China have expanded their inquiry to include a Chinese contract to build a key railroad link, investigators said Friday, indicating that they suspect a pattern of corruption on deals with China.
On Friday, anticorruption investigators confirmed that they were investigating allegations that China National Machinery & Equipment Import and Export Company, or CMEC, had agreed to pay the same Namibian company 10 percent of the final contract price for help in sealing a deal to build a 38-mile-long rail link. The Namibian company, Teko Trading, was controlled by one of the nation’s public service commissioners, Teckla Lameck, and an associate, Kongo Mokaxwa. Investigators say the company existed only on paper.
Source: New York Times
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