The U.S. Army has accused an American company based in Kuwait of paying nearly $300,000 in bribes to obtain military contracts.
According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Alabama, Lee Dynamics International was suspended from contracting services in July, after an investigation in which two Army officers admitted taking bribes.
One officer, Maj. Gloria D. Davis, committed suicide after confessing to an Army investigator that she had accepted at least $225,000 from the company. A second officer, identified in court documents only as “Person B,” said company owner George Lee gave him $50,000 in cash in exchange for help in obtaining contracts totaling at least $11 million.
The investigation came to light after Lee Dynamics filed suit to block the suspension, arguing that the allegations were unfounded. A judge dismissed the case last week, ruling that company officials needed to pursue their case with the military, not with the courts.
The federal contractor database lists Lee Dynamics as an active company, founded in October 2004. The company web site says that its business centers on military contracts in Kuwait and Iraq. The site says the firm has provided warehousing services in five locations in Iraq, storing more than $1 billion in reconstruction materials.
It also lists a subsidiary - a beauty shop in Kuwait, known as “Thai Lanna Beauty Center.”
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