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On the 25 April 2008, in its quarterly filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the USA, Halliburton reported that the Justice Department was widening its probe to determine whether its subsidiary, Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), paid $180 million in bribes to Nigerian officials to win a $5 billion construction contract for the Bonny Island natural gas liquefaction plant.

Halliburton also stated that the Justice Department was investigating whether bribes were paid to Nigerian officials relating to KBR’s construction of an offshore platform. The Justice Department "has evidence of payments to Nigerian officials by another agent in connection with a separate KBR-managed project in Nigeria called the Shell EA project," according to a footnote in Halliburton’s SEC filing.The bribes allegedly went to the Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha.