BizJet前销售经理詹森就海外贿赂案认罪：73岁，十多年前被起诉后终在塔尔萨联邦法院认罪
美国司法部10月30日宣布，飞机维修企业BizJet国际销售与支持公司（BizJet International Sales and Support Inc.）前销售经理贾尔德·詹森（Jald Jensen）已就其参与向拉丁美洲政府官员行贿、为公司揽取业务的计划认罪。詹森现年73岁，现居佛罗里达州巴拿马城，此前曾住在加利福尼亚州范奈斯（Van Nuys）。据法庭记录，詹森10月29日在俄克拉荷马州北区联邦法院（塔尔萨）认罪。
BizJet总部位于俄克拉荷马州塔尔萨，是德国汉莎技术公司（Lufthansa Technik AG）在美国的子公司，为公务机与政府机队提供飞机维修、修理与大修服务。本案源于十多年前的调查：詹森2012年被起诉，包含11项罪名的起诉书于2013年解封，当时检方认为他身在国外；他今年9月在塔尔萨联邦法院首次出庭。
据司法部此前公布的案情，BizJet多名高管向墨西哥联邦预防警察、墨西哥总统专机机队、锡那罗亚州与索诺拉州政府机队以及巴拿马民航局等机构的官员行贿，以换取对方协助公司拿到飞机维修合同；在部分交易中，贿款经詹森拥有并经营的空壳公司Avionica International & Associates Inc.转移洗白，该公司表面上提供飞机维修经纪服务。
本案其余被告已先行处置：BizJet前总裁兼首席执行官贝恩德·科瓦莱夫斯基（Bernd Kowalewski）2014年认罪，前销售与营销副总裁彼得·杜波依斯（Peter DuBois）与前财务副总裁尼尔·乌尔（Neal Uhl）2012年认罪。BizJet公司本身此前已与司法部达成延期起诉协议，支付1,180万美元罚款。詹森的量刑日期尚未公布。
Former BizJet Sales Manager Jald Jensen, 73, Pleads Guilty to Foreign Bribery in Decade-Old Case
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on October 30 that Jald Jensen, a former sales manager of BizJet International Sales and Support Inc., pleaded guilty for his role in a scheme to pay bribes to government officials in Latin America to secure business for BizJet. Jensen, 73, of Panama City, Florida, and previously of Van Nuys, California, entered his plea on October 29 in federal court in Tulsa, in the Northern District of Oklahoma, according to court records.
BizJet, headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a U.S.-based subsidiary of Lufthansa Technik AG that provides aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services. Jensen was indicted in 2012, and the 11-count indictment was unsealed in 2013, when prosecutors believed he was living abroad. He made his initial appearance in Tulsa federal court in September.
According to the Justice Department's earlier filings in the case, BizJet executives paid bribes to officials employed by the Mexican Policia Federal Preventiva, the Mexican presidential air fleet, the air fleets of the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Sonora, and Panama's civil aviation authority, in exchange for help securing aircraft maintenance contracts. In some instances, bribes were funneled through Avionica International & Associates Inc., a shell company owned and operated by Jensen that purported to provide aircraft maintenance brokerage services but in reality laundered money related to the scheme.
Other defendants were resolved earlier: former BizJet president and CEO Bernd Kowalewski pleaded guilty in 2014, and former vice presidents Peter DuBois and Neal Uhl pleaded guilty in 2012. BizJet itself previously entered a deferred prosecution agreement and paid an $11.8 million penalty. A sentencing date for Jensen has not been announced.
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