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Moscow, Russia. Photo credit: S_E- Fotolia. [/caption] Federal prosecutors have charged the former co-head of a Maryland company with bribing an official of Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, known as Rosatom, in order to win contracts for his company to transport uranium from Russia to the U.S. The U.S. Department of Justice indicted Mark Lambert, former co-president of Transport Logistics International Inc., on 11 counts, including seven counts of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The indictment was unsealed at Lambert’s arraignment in U.S. District Court in Maryland on Jan. 12. Lambert did not return messages seeking comment. Court documents show the court cleared him to travel to Cancun from Jan. 13 to Jan. 18, but he then must remain in the U.S. under supervision by pretrial services until his trial before U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang. The indictment outlines a bribe scheme between 2004 and 2014 involving Vadim Mikerin, a Russian official at a JSCTechnabexport, a subsidiary of Rosatom. The bribe money allegedly moved from TLI through three shell corporations located in the Republic of Seychelles, the United Kingdom and the British Virgin Islands, then to bank accounts in Cyprus, Latvia and Switzerland. The DOJ said law enforcement colleagues in Switzerland, Latvia and Cyprus provided “valuable assistance” with the investigation and prosecution of the case. Lambert’s company allegedly overbilled the Russian corporation by building the cost of the corrupt payments into its invoices, DOJ said. Besides the seven FCPA counts, Lambert faces one count of conspiracy to violate the FCPA, two counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. In June 2015, Lambert’s former co-president, Daren Condrey, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the FCPA and commit wire fraud. And Mikerin, the Russian national, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering involving violations of the FCPA. Mikerin is currently serving a sentence of 48 months in prison, and Condrey is awaiting sentencing.