A billionaire property developer will return to the Southwark Crown Court on June 20 this year, after he was charged with bribing a former Antigua and Barbuda government minister.
A statement from the National Crime Agency (NCA) said that Peter Virdee, who was wanted in relation to a multi-million-pound (One GBP=US$1.27 cents) NCA bribery investigation has been charged alongside the company of which he is a director.
It said that Virdee, 50, also known as Hardip Singh, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court on Thursday to answer the charge that between January 2015 and July 2017 he bribed a Member of Parliament and Government Minister of Tourism, Economic Development Investment and Energy for Antigua and Barbuda, to benefit PV Energy Ltd, the company he is a director of.
PV Energy Ltd was simultaneously charged with failing to prevent bribery in relation to the same offences, the NCA said, adding that Virdee was bailed to appear at Southwark Crown Court on June 20, 2024. —LONDON (CMC)