An Oslo court on Tuesday sentenced the American chief legal adviser of Norwegian fertiliser giant Yara International to seven years in prison for aggravated bribery in Libya and India.
In December, an Oslo appeals court upheld a guilty verdict against Kendrick Wallace, but cleared three other former executives in the case: two Norwegians, including former CEO Thorleif Enger, and a Frenchman.
Wallace's sentence, which the lower court had set at two-and-a-half years, was extended because the appeals court found he had played a "central" role in the bribery payments.
In addition, "as senior legal advisor he occupied a central position in the company's anti-corruption work", the court ruled.
In what the Norwegian media has dubbed "the biggest corruption scandal in Norwegian history", the partly state-owned Yara paid a record 295 million kroner (32.4 million euros, $38.5 million) fine in January 2014 for lining the pockets of top Libyan and Indian officials in order to win contracts.
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