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Kingpin of US Navy scam in Asia caught

The US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Stockdale transits the Philippine Sea in November 2018. The Navy was bilked out of tens of millions of dollars in inflated maintenance charges in Asia in one of the largest scandals in its history. (Reuters File Photo)

A military contractor at the centre of a major US Navy corruption scandal in Thailand and elsewhere in Asia has been arrested in Venezuela, where he had fled after escaping house arrest in California.

Interpol Venezuela said that Leonard Glenn Francis, known as “Fat Leonard”, had entered the country from Mexico with a stopover in Cuba. His final destination was Russia, NBC News quoted an Interpol spokesman as saying on Wednesday.

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