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A military contractor who pleaded guilty to the US Navy’s worst corruption scandal had escaped the arrest of a house in San Diego, the US Marshals service on Monday.
“Leonard Francis interrupted the ankle bracelet that monitored GPS on Sunday morning,” Deputy Supervisor Marshal Omar Castillo told AFP in a statement.
Widely known as “fat leonard,” Francis will be sentenced to three weeks, said the US media.
Francis, A Malaysian National WHO Ran A Military Contracting Company Out of Singapore, pleaded guilty in 2015 to offering some $ 500,000 in bribes to navy officers to steer official work to his shipyards, carrying out work on us vessels that prosecutors say he overcharged the navy for , up to $ 35 million.
The police were sent to his residence in San Diego on Sunday after the agency that monitored the ankle bracelet reported the problem with the device, said Castillo.
“Upon arrival they noticed that no one was at home,” he said.
“They then told us Marshal who went home and verified that he was no longer there. Until now some instructions were being investigated.”
San Diego Union-Tribune reported that the Cut-off GPS bracelet was found at home, while neighbors said they had seen trucks moving U-Haul coming and going to property on the days before their escape.
Francis was arrested in 2013 and pleaded guilty two years later. He suffered many health problems, including kidney cancer, which made him released for home capture in 2018 when acting as a witness who worked together for the Federal Prosecutor.
He will be punished on September 22.
Four Navy officers have been found guilty in this case so far, while 29 other people, including Navy, contractors and Francis themselves, are guilty, said the US media.
