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The U.S. Department of Justice reviews that Xavier Fernando Monroy, 65, a former Director of Operations of the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) Office in Busan, South Korea, was sentenced Friday to 5 years in jail for his function in a bribery conspiracy and mendacity to federal investigators.
According to courtroom paperwork and proof offered at trial, Monroy , of Brentwood, New York, engaged in a conspiracy to commit bribery with the proprietor of DK Marine, a South Korea-based firm that supplied companies to the Navy, in addition to with a former MSC captain, to steer U.S. Navy enterprise to DK Marine. From 2011 to 2014, Monroy used his place of affect as a public official to learn his co-conspirator, together with by steering over $3.3 million in husbanding companies contracts for U.S. navy ships to DK Marine. Husbanding service suppliers provide objects or companies for ships similar to water ferry and taxi companies, floor transportation and different logistical necessities.
Evidence at trial additionally proved that Monroy supplied a co-conspirator with confidential and different proprietary inner U.S. Navy data. In alternate for these advantages, the co-conspirator paid bribes to Monroy, together with hundreds of {dollars} in money, private journey bills, meals and alcoholic drinks, and prostitution companies. Additionally, throughout a voluntary interview in July 2019, Monroy repeatedly lied to particular brokers of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) and Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) once they confronted him about his unlawful conduct.
In August 2022, a federal jury within the District of Columbia convicted Monroy of conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery, and making false statements.
The DCIS and NCIS investigated the case.
