Mark Lambert, Bribery, Maryland 2021

Greenbelt, Maryland – Mark Lambert, age 57, of Mount Airy, Maryland, was sentenced to four years in federal prison, followed by THREE years of supervised release, after his conviction at trial on four counts of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), two counts of wire fraud, and one count of conspiracy to violate the FCPA and commit wire fraud.

The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert K. Hur and Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. Lambert must report to the U.S. Marshals Service by February 15, 2021, to begin serving his prison sentence.

Lambert is the former president of Transport Logistics International, Inc. (TLI), a Maryland-based transportation company that provides services for the transportation of nuclear materials to customers in the United States and abroad, including to the Russian Federation.

According to the evidence presented at his three-week trial, Lambert engaged in a scheme to bribe Vadim Mikerin, a Russian official at JSC Techsnabexport (TENEX), a subsidiary of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation and the sole supplier and exporter of Russian Federation uranium and uranium enrichment services to nuclear power companies worldwide.

The trial evidence demonstrated that, for approximately seven years, in order to secure contracts with TENEX, Lambert conspired with others at TLI to make the corrupt and fraudulent bribery and kickback payments to Mikerin through offshore bank accounts associated with shell companies, at Mikerin’s direction.

Lambert and others then caused TLI to wire the corrupt payments for those purported services to shell company bank accounts in Latvia, Cyprus, and Switzerland. Two other defendants have pleaded guilty in this matter. Daren Condrey, age 55, of Glenwood, Maryland, Lambert’s former co-president, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the FCPA and commit wire fraud. He is awaiting sentencing.

Vadim Mikerin, age 61, a Russian official formerly residing in Chevy Chase, Maryland, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering involving violations of the FCPA and was sentenced to four years in federal prison. On March 12, 2018, TLI entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the government in connection with the bribery scheme.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/former-president-maryland-based-nuclear-transportation-company-sentenced-four-years