US court acquits shipbuilder’s sales rep over Mozambique corruption scandal
03 December 2019 - 11:03
New York — A US jury on Monday cleared a sales representative for a Lebanese shipbuilding company of charges that he helped to defraud US investors in bonds backed by the Mozambican government.
Jean Boustani, 41, was acquitted of the charges by a jury following a trial in federal court in Brooklyn, which shed new light on a corruption scandal that contributed to Mozambique's debt default in 2016...
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