The Navy has suspended another official — the seventh in two months — for his alleged ties to a major Singapore-based defense contractor accused of fraud and bribery in a scandal that continues to escalate.
Capt. David W. Haas, a Naval Academy graduate and the deputy commander of a coastal patrol unit based in San Diego, was suspended and reassigned Nov. 15. Navy officials said he is under investigation for his connections to the contractor, Glenn Defense Marine Asia, but declined to provide details.
The chief executive of Glenn Defense Marine, Leonard Glenn Francis, appeared in shackles in a federal courtroom in San Diego.
Federal prosecutors have filed bribery-related charges against two Navy commanders and a senior agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Francis and another Glenn Defense Marine executive were arrested in September in San Diego and face similar charges.
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