A former executive with a United Kingdom subsidiary of the then-Kellogg, Brown & Root Inc. has pleaded guilty to a charge that he conspired to bribe Nigerian government officials to win contracts for a $6-billion project in that country, the U.S. Dept. of Justice said.
Wojciech J. Chodan, a former commercial vice president and consultant to the KBR subsidiary, entered a guilty plea on Dec. 6 in federal district court in Houston on one count of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, DOJ said.