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Azerbaijan is the 21st largest country, by oil reserves and coincidentally also 21st by oil production. It is next to Iran, and a key stop for troops on the way to Afghanistan.

Bourke was convicted of conspiring with a Czech national, Wikipedia:Viktor Kožený, also known as "Pirate of Prague" [1] to pay bribes to the ex-president and government officials of Azerbaijan. The bribery involved a 1998 scheme to induce the sale and purchase of the Azeri state oil company.[2] Although Bourke did not personally bribe the government officials and lost his $8 million investment in a hedge fund managed by the Czech national, Bourke was found to have known personally that monies invested in the fund were used for bribing Azeri officials with cash and a secret 2/3 interest in the oil company.[2] Prosecutors claimed that Bourke “consciously avoided” learning about the bribes by not asking questions about them.[3]


On July 9, 2009, Frederic Bourke was found guilty by a jury and convicted of conspiracy and bribery under the U.S. Wikipedia:Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Wikipedia:Travel Act in the Wikipedia:U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.[4] After the jury verdict, District Judge Wikipedia:Shira Scheindlin assessed a $1 million fine against Bourke and sentenced him to a jail term of one year and a day, followed by three years of probation.[5]


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  1. ↑ "Pirate of Prague". Wikipedia:Bloomberg L.P.. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aYo5XHTxYDT0. Retrieved 2012-05-20. </li>
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Glovin, David. Executive guilty of conspiracy in foreign bribery case. Wikipedia:Bloomberg News. URL accessed on 2010-02-08.
  3. ↑ Bourke Convicted of Bribery in Kozeny’s Azerbaijan Oil Deal, David Glovin - July 11, 2009
  4. ↑ Johnson, Carrie (2010-02-08). "U.S. sends a message by stepping up crackdown on foreign business bribes". Wikipedia:The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/07/AR2010020702506.html. Retrieved 2010-02-08. </li>
  5. ↑ Vardi, Nathan. Founder of Dooney & Bourke gets jail term of one year. Wikipedia:Forbes. URL accessed on 2010-02-08.

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