“I agreed to pay bribes to Petrobras,” Skornicki told US District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto in Brooklyn, New York. “In exchange for those bribes, we expected contracts would be awarded.” He added: “I acted on behalf of KOM,” the Keppel unit.
(June 26): A former agent of a US unit of Keppel Offshore & Marine, the world’s biggest builder of oil rigs, pleaded guilty in a scheme to pay bribes to Brazilian officials tied to the Petrobras scandal.
Zwi Skornicki, 69, admitted on Tuesday that from 2001 to 2014 he participated in a plot to bribe Brazilian authorities and officials with Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil’s state-owned oil company, to win business for Keppel.
