Ex-AAFES official allegedly coached SSRT on contracts

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Ex-AAFES official allegedly coached SSRT on contracts
By Franklin Fisher, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, December 14, 2007

SUWON, South Korea — Former AAFES official Clifton W. Choy allegedly coached a South Korean company on how to file misleading paperwork to help it compete for a lucrative Internet service contract with the U.S. military in South Korea, according to testimony Wednesday in Suwon District Court.

Choy also phoned executives of the company SSRT, also known as Samsung Rental Corp. Ltd., with inside progress reports that the bidding was going in their favor, according to Bok Jin-soo, a former SSRT executive.

Bok was one of two witnesses who testified Wednesday that SSRT paid cash bribes to Choy and another former Army and Air Force Exchange System official, H. Lee Holloway.

The testimony came during the trial of SSRT chief executive Jeong Gi-hwan, whom prosecutors accuse of bribing Choy and Holloway in connection with the Internet and phone service contract for U.S. military installations in South Korea.

South Korean authorities arrested Jeong in September 2006.


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