Russian National Pleads Guilty in European Bank Bribe Plot
- Dmitrij Harder admits payoffs to help oil and gas firms
- Harder's clients secured EBRD financing for bribes, U.S. says
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A Russian national who worked as a consultant pleaded guilty in Philadelphia to bribing an official at a European development bank to secure financing for two oil and gas companies that were his clients.
Dmitrij Harder, 43, admitted Wednesday that he paid $3.5 million in bribes from 2007 to 2009 to an official at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, according to a Justice Department statement. In exchange, the EBRD approved applications for financing for two clients of Harder’s company, Chestnut Consulting Group Inc., according to prosecutors.