Defense contractors charged with bribery

Published April 13, 2009 4:00am ET



Federal authorities have charged with bribery two employees of a Lebanese-based company that claims to have more than $400 million in contracts with the Department of Defense, court documents filed in Alexandria’s federal court said.

Sima Salazar Group’s Afghanistan Country Manager Dinorah Cobos and her boss, Raymond Azar, offered a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official more than $100,000 if the official would approve at least $3 million in expenses beyond the value of initial contract proposals, according to a sworn statement by FBI Special Agent Perry J. Goerish.

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