A British investor at the heart of a foreign company’s bribery allegations against Alcoa Inc. argued in federal court documents filed Monday in Pittsburgh that requiring him to defend himself now in a civil lawsuit would jeopardize his defense in a pending British criminal case and a United States criminal investigation.
Victor Dahdaleh, who was an Alcoa agent in Bahrain, is facing corruption and money laundering charges in the United Kingdom and is a target of a Justice Department investigation into Aluminium Bahrain BSC’s claims that he ran overseas shell companies that funneled kickbacks to company officials and bribes to Bahraini officials.
The company, commonly known as Alba, is seeking $1 billion in damages in a Pittsburgh federal civil lawsuit against New York-based Alcoa, Dahdaleh and William Rice, an Alcoa executive. The lawsuit is being heard in Pittsburgh because Alba contends most of the decisions for the briberies came out of Alcoa’s North Shore facility.
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