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A 54-year-old Brisbane man who was an alleged significant player in a complex scheme to bribe Iraqi officials to approve oil contracts worth billions of dollars has been hit with a fresh bribery charge.
The new charge relates to $US4 million in suspicious payments linked to a $US66.48 million contract for a port project in Tanzania.
Russell John Waugh was arrested at his home in November following a nine-year international investigation focusing on two Iraqi contracts worth a combined $US1.46 billion.
Those contracts involved the development of oil pipelines designed to increase the capacity of Iraq s crude oil export. Investigators identified $US77.6 million in suspicious payments made via third-party contractors.