Two Businessmen charged in New York for bribing Sam Kutesa

Two businessmen have been charged in New York for paying millions of US dollars in bribes to secure business deals in Uganda and Chad. The Department of Justice has charging the head of a Hong Kong-based NGO Dr. Chi Ping Patrick Ho, 68, of Hong Kong, and the former foreign minister of Senegal Cheikh Gadio, 61, with bribing high-level officials to help a Chinese oil and gas company to gain business advantages in Africa.
Gadio was arrested in New York on Friday afternoon while Ho was arrested Saturday. The two were charged in a criminal complaint in Manhattan federal court on Monday with violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, international money laundering and conspiracy to commit both.

One of the schemes was relying on gifts paid to Sam Kutesa, the Ugandan Minister of Foreign Affairs who recently served as President of the United Nations General Assembly.

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