[ALBSA-Info] Corruption Case

[Agron Alibali]

KENYA: Former World Bank Official Pleads Guilty To Corruption
Former World Bank official Gautam Sengupta has pleaded guilty to charges of corruption before a U.S. Federal Court, according to a statement made yesterday by the bank.  Sengupta admitted that while supervising from Washington an urban transport project in Kenya, he agreed to pass on a request from a Kenyan government official involved in the project for a $50,000 kickback.  Sengupta has not yet been sentenced for his actions.

The bank also said that its own investigation, launched in March 2001, showed that two of the contracts for the Kenya Urban Transport Infrastructure Project were given to a company that had paid bribes to one of its employees and a Kenyan official.  The bank severed funding for the project last October and handed the case over to the U.S. Department of Justice after finding evidence of corruption.  The bank statement did not say when it is likely to resume disbursements of the project's remaining $21.6 million.  The Kenyan government is conducting its own investigation (Nairobi Daily Nation, April 19).



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