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Ibi bikurikira biri ku ipaji ya munani.
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B. Bribes in Rwanda
25. At the direction of defendants Ott and Young, Amoako negotiated with an employee of Rwandatel in February 2002 to obtain a carrier agreement between ITXC and Rwandatel. With the full knowledge and approval of Ott and Young, Amoako promised to compensate the Rwandatel employee as an agent of ITXC if he would influence Rwandatel to agree to favorable terms for the exchange of telecommunications traffic with ITXC. The Rwandatel employee agreed and became ITXC's agent (hereinafter "the Rwandatel Agent").
26. On February 28,2002, Rwandatel and ITXC entered an agreement to exchange telecommunications traffic (hereinafter the "Rwandatel Carrier Agreement"), which the Rwandatel Agent signed as an employee of Rwandatel.
27. On July 2,2002, ITXC entered into a formal agent agreement with the Rwandatel Agent, which defendant Ott signed on behalf of ITXC. The agreement entitled the Rwandatel Agent to $0.01 for each minute of telephone traffic that ITXC was
able to complete to telephone subscribers in Rwanda (as well as in Burundi and Uganda where Rwandatel had the right to complete telephone calls) under the Rwandatel Carrier Agreement. Pursuant to the agent agreement, Ott and Young approved a payment to the Rwandatel Agent of $26,155.1 1 on September 1 1,2002. ITXC made this payment
through a wire transfer from its account at PNC Bank in New Jersey to the account of the Rwandatel Agent at Standard Chartered Bank in Dubai.
28. Ott and Young caused ITXC improperly to record the foregoing payment to the Rwandatel Agent as a legitimate expense on ITXC's books and records.
29. At all relevant times, Ott and Young knew that the Rwandatel Agent was an employee of the foreign government-owned Rwandatel. The sole purpose of the payment was to influence the Rwandatel Agent, a foreign official, to steer the Rwandatel Carrier Agreement to ITXC and thereby enable it to obtain and retain business with Rwandatel.
30. There was no legitimate purpose for the payment. In fact, as a result of the agreement with the Rwandatel Agent, ITXC earned profits of $217,418 from selling telephone service to customers calling Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda. ITXC could not have made such sales without having the Rwandatel Carrier Agreement that resulted from the bribes paid to the Rwandatel Agent.[/code]
