WASHINGTON (AFP): The US Navy has cancelled more than USD$200mil in contracts with a Singapore-based defense firm of Malaysian businessman Leonard Glenn Francis (pix) caught up in a major bribery scandal linked to senior naval officers.
The Navy called off four contracts worth USD$203.5mil and prohibited new orders with Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), which is at the centre of a criminal case involving payoffs and prostitutes, two naval officials said Thursday.
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