– I live in Florida and is retired.
There are some of the few words the audience at court 250 have been hearing from former legal director Kendrick Wallace since the corruption case against him and three other former Yara-tops began in Oslo District Court last Monday.
Over two days, the court heard how Økokrim believes Wallace was the man who, on behalf of Yara created a “corrupt side channel” for negotiations on a fertilizer partnership with the national oil company NOC in Libya.
Monday is the Wallace even turn to tell his version of the story. All day in court is set aside his free explanation.
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According to the indictment, Wallace have agreed to pay at least $ 5 million to the son of Libya’s former Oil Minister. Wallace is also charged with a similar relationship in India, where he on behalf of Yara shall have agreed to pay $ 1 million to the son of a top bureaucrat in the country’s fertilizer ministry.
– Not guilty, responded Wallace the judge asked how he stood to the indictment.
His lawyer, Arild Dyngeland, claimed in their initial comments that in both cases are talking about completely ordinary business negotiations that in no way was any result of corruption, and that the agreements were ordinary consultancy agreements.
– This is a person who is in its full right to do their job and take paid for the work he does – even though his father working in the ministry, he said about the controversial consultant in India.
– Completely unacceptable
Wallaces former colleague Tor Holba, however, claims he went straight to the CEO and notified agreement in Libya as soon as he heard about it, in late summer 2008 . According Holbe lawyer, Nadia C. Hall, believed Holba agreement was “totally unacceptable” – because it appeared as lack of transparency because it was negotiated behind his back.
According to Hall believes Holba admittedly also that million salary consultant received was payment for help and advice, not bribery. Yara’s Board has on its side previously adopted a corporate fine for these conditions, and admitted guilt.
Wallace joined Yara in summer 2008, leaving his position as General Counsel to Trgyve Faksvaag, which he has characterized as a of his best friends. He continued as a consultant for Yara.
Following FBI
Barely four years later, in May 2012, he was arrested by French police in a crackdown coordinated with Økokrim and the FBI when he landed in Paris. Co-defendants Daniel Clauw was arrested in Paris the same day. The two were questioned and detained for 48 hours.
Today’s Business has previously written that FBI investigator Leslie Nelson unexpectedly emerged during the second interrogation of Wallace, which took place in the Norwegian Embassy in Brussels .
Along with a representative from the US Department of Justice she interrupted interrogation and gave Wallace a clear message that they came with, and that he as an American citizen risked being prosecuted in the US for violations of the US corruption legislation.
Nelson said to DN Tuesday that it is still possible US government opens own investigation against Wallace, but that it was not something they dealt with now.
– I participated in interrogations with Mr . Wallace, so it is interesting to hear his testimony, said Nelson to DN.
Hidden payment
Wallace defends Arild Dyngeland has not yet come into why the payout to minister’s son in Libya according indictment was made through a pathway athletic business partner of Yara.
He has not commented why large parts of the correspondence between his client and ministerial son according Økokrim happening via private email accounts. Økokrim has not been given access to Wallaces gmail account.
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