AF wraps bribe probe of ex-AAFES officials

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AF wraps bribe probe of ex-AAFES officials
By Franklin Fisher, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, November 3, 2007

OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — Air Force agents who investigated bribery allegations against former AAFES official Clifton W. Choy have forwarded their findings to federal prosecutors in Hawaii for possible further action.

Choy, whose state of residence is Hawaii, and a second former Army and Air Force Exchange Service official, H. Lee Holloway, have been the subject of investigations this year by the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations into alleged bribery involving SSRT, also known as Samsung Rental Corp. Ltd.

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Agents have probed allegations that SSRT chief executive Jeong Gi-hwan paid thousands of dollars in bribes to Choy and Holloway so that SSRT could hold the contract. The contract has since been taken over by another company, LG Dacom.

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Choy was services program manager at AAFES’ Pacific headquarters on Camp Foster, Okinawa, from February 2005 until his employment ended Feb. 17 after 36 years.

Holloway’s last AAFES position was as general manager at Fort Benning, Ga. At Osan Air Base in South Korea, he was AAFES general manager from June 2000 through August 2005. His AAFES employment ended Jan. 11.

AAFES has declined to disclose why Holloway’s and Choy’s employment ended, citing privacy rules.


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