HONG KONG -- The U.S. Department of Justice has arrested a former Hong Kong government official and Senegal's ex-foreign minister over a corruption plot hatched by a mainland Chinese company.
Hong Kong's Patrick Ho Chi-ping, 68, and Senegalese Cheikh Gadio, 61, were arrested in New York on Saturday and Friday respectively, according to a statement released on Monday that said the two were found "participating in a multi-year, multimillion-dollar scheme to bribe high-level officials in Chad and Uganda in exchange for business advantages for a Chinese oil and gas company."
