SAN DIEGO: Fugitive Malaysian defence contractor “Fat Leonard”, the mastermind behind one of the largest bribery scandals in US military history has been re-arrested in Venezuela three weeks after escaping from house arrest.
Leonard Glenn Francis (pic) had cut off his GPS ankle bracelet before fleeing from house arrest in San Diego, while waiting for sentencing over a bribery scheme that lasted more than a decade and involved dozens of US Navy officers.
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