LONDON (AP) — Britain's High Court says a U.K. lawyer can be extradited to the United States to face allegations that he helped a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary bribe Nigerian officials.
Federal prosecutors in Houston, Texas, accuse 62-year-old Jeffrey Tesler of facilitating payments from Kellogg, Brown & Root LLC to officials of the Nigerian government to win more than $6 billion in construction contracts.
Tesler's lawyer had argued that he should not be extradited because the alleged crimes did not have a substantial link to the U.S. and that the passage of time might prevent a fair trial.
Two High Court judges on Thursday kicked out the appeal, and said there were no grounds to block his extradition.
Tesler, a dual British and Israeli citizen, was arrested in Feb. 2009.
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