The net widens

Officials in Abuja are intensifying a probe into commissions of more than US$180 million on a gas export plant following Africa Confidential's report last month that Nigeria's biggest construction company Julius Berger (and its German parent company, Bilfinger Berger) had made payments for services to the British lawyer, Jeffrey Tesler, at the centre of the gas investigation (AC Vol 45 No 13).

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German, British, Jeffrey Tesler, United States, France, Italy, Japanese, Dick Cheney, Africa Confidential

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