The U.S. Justice Department released the below information:
A
federal jury in the District of Columbia convicted the former Director of
Operations of the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command Office in Busan, South
Korea, today for his role in a bribery conspiracy and for lying to federal
investigators.
According
to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Fernando Xavier Monroy, 64,
of Brentwood, New York, engaged in a conspiracy to commit bribery with the
owner of DK Marine, a South Korea-based company that provided services to the
U.S. Navy, and a former civilian U.S. Navy cargo ship captain. Evidence at
trial proved that Monroy conspired to unlawfully provide services for the Navy
ship, captained by one of Monroy’s co-conspirators, during a December 2013 port
visit in Chinhae, South Korea.
Evidence
at trial also proved that Monroy provided a co-conspirator with confidential
and other proprietary, internal U.S. Navy information. In exchange for the
steering of business and the provision of such information, the co-conspirator
paid bribes to Monroy, including cash, personal travel expenses, meals and
alcoholic beverages, and the services of prostitutes. Monroy also repeatedly
lied to special agents of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) and
Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) during a voluntary interview in
July 2019.
Monroy
was convicted of conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery, and making false
statements. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 18 and faces a maximum
penalty of 35 years in prison. A federal district court judge will determine
any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other
statutory factors.
Assistant
Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal
Division made the announcement.
The
DCIS and NCIS investigated the case.
Trial
Attorneys Sara Hallmark and Amanda Lingwood of the Justice Department’s Fraud
Section are prosecuting the case.
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