24 March 2017, Sweetcrude, Lagos — The chief executive officer and legal director of Addax Petroleum in Geneva have both been arrested and charged with suspected bribery of foreign officials, the spokesman for the canton’s prosecutor said on Friday.
A criminal procedure has also been opened against the company – an affiliate of China’s Sinopec, Asia’s largest oil refiner – prosecutor’s spokesman Henri della Casa said.
“I can confirm that the Geneva prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation into bribery of foreign officials and that the company Addax and its director-general and legal director are the subject of it,” della Casa said.
Addax was not immediately available to comment.
