{"id":48723,"date":"2022-09-22T14:33:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T05:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/22\/fat-leonard-fugitive-contractor-in-us-navys-worst-corruption-scandal-arrested-in-venezuela"},"modified":"2022-09-22T14:33:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T05:33:31","slug":"fat-leonard-fugitive-contractor-in-us-navys-worst-corruption-scandal-arrested-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48723","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fat Leonard\u2019, fugitive contractor in US navy\u2019s worst corruption scandal, arrested in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian defence contractor fled before sentencing in US over bribery scheme that lasted more than a decade and involved dozens of US navy officers<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A Malaysian defence contractor nicknamed \u201cFat Leonard\u201d who orchestrated one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/sep\/11\/fat-leonard-navy-bribes-scandal-explained\">largest bribery scandals<\/a> in US military history has been arrested in Venezuela after<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/sep\/06\/fat-leonard-contractor-in-us-navys-worst-corruption-scandal-flees-house-arrest\"> fleeing before his sentencing<\/a>, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>The international manhunt for Leonard Glenn Francis ended with his arrest by Venezuelan authorities on Tuesday morning at the Caracas airport as he was about to board an airplane for another country, the US Marshals Service said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/22\/fat-leonard-fugitive-contractor-in-us-navys-worst-corruption-scandal-arrested-in-venezuela\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian defence contractor fled before sentencing in US over bribery scheme that lasted more than a decade and involved dozens of US navy officersA Malaysian defence contractor nicknamed \u201cFat Leonard\u201d who orchestrated one of the largest bribery scand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,70,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-malaysia","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48724,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48723\/revisions\/48724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}