Mark T. Lambert, Foreign Bribery, Maryland 2021

Former President of Nuclear Transportation Company Sentenced to Prison for Foreign Bribery and Other Offenses

A 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, was sentenced to 48 months in prison for his role in a scheme to bribe a Russian official in exchange for obtaining contracts for the company.

According to the evidence presented at trial, Mark T. Lambert, 57, participated in a scheme to bribe Vadim Mikerin, a Russian official at JSC Techsnabexport (TENEX), a subsidiary of Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM) and the sole supplier and exporter of Russian Federation uranium and uranium enrichment services to nuclear power companies worldwide.

Lambert and other members of the conspiracy used code words like 'lucky figures,' 'LF,' 'lucky numbers,' and 'cake' to describe the bribes, and they communicated with Mikerin about the scheme at his alias e-mail account where Mikerin used the name 'Marvin Jodel.'

The trial evidence demonstrated that, for approximately seven years, in order to secure contracts with TENEX, Lambert conspired with others at TLI to make over $1.5 million in corrupt and fraudulent bribe payments to Mikerin through offshore shell companies Mikerin directed them to pay.

On Nov. 22, 2019, after a three-week trial, Lambert was convicted of 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. In addition to his prison sentence, Judge Chuang ordered Lambert to pay a $20,000 fine. Lambert must report to the U.S. Marshals Service by Feb. 15, 2021.

Two other defendants have pleaded guilty in this matter. On June 17, 2015, Daren Condrey, Lambert's former co-president, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the FCPA and commit wire fraud. He is awaiting sentencing. On Aug. 31, 2015, Russian national Vadim Mikerin pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. He was sentenced to 48 months in prison.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/former-president-nuclear-transportation-company-sentenced-prison-foreign-bribery-and-other