Ex-French Power Exec Charged in Foreign Bribery Scheme

A former senior executive of a French power and transportation company has been charged in a second superseding indictment for his alleged participation in a scheme to pay bribes to foreign government officials.

Lawrence Hoskins, 62, a former senior vice president for the Asia region for the French company, was charged in the District of Connecticut with conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and to launder money, as well as substantive FCPA and money laundering violations.

Hoskins was charged alongside William Pomponi, a former executive of the Connecticut-based subsidiary of the power and transportation company who was previously charged in a superseding indictment on April 30, 2013.

The bribery scheme allegedly involved paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to officials in Indonesia, including a member of the Indonesian Parliament and high-ranking members of Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), the state-owned and state-controlled electricity company in Indonesia.

The bribes were allegedly paid in exchange for assistance in securing a $118 million contract, known as the Tarahan project, for the company and its consortium partner to provide power-related services for the citizens of Indonesia.

According to court documents, emails between Hoskins, Pomponi, and their co-conspirators discuss in detail the use of consultants to funnel bribes to the member of Parliament and the influence that the member of Parliament could exert over the Tarahan project.

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