Four businessmen charged with bribing the defense minister of Gabon jumped at the chance to enter into a corrupt deal to supply military equipment to the country, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday at the opening of a trial that will test the government’s first extensive use of undercover work in a foreign bribery investigation.
The FBI concocted the deal — the Gabonese played no role — in 2009 as part of an investigation of foreign bribery in the arms industry….
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