The indictment also alleged that shortly after Gratto was hired, Mr Gratto agreed to provide substantial cash kickbacks to Mr Mahmoud.
Mr Bakare faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison for wire fraud. Sentencing is set for September 3 at 9:30 a.m.
Customs is partnering with the World Bank Group under the Accelerated Revenue Mobilisation Reform Programme to equip its personnel with modern audit techniques.
Matrix will pay $36.5 million to resolve claims in a qui tam action filed in the Southern District of New York. HealthFair will pay $5 million, and Ekbatani will pay $15 million.
A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted an activist short seller of securities fraud for a long-running market manipulation scheme that reaped more than $21 million in profits.
Court records show that Boateng has an extensive criminal history, with more than 20 criminal convictions and more than 40 arrests.
He was sentenced on Monday to 14 years in prison for a five-year scheme to defraud multiple lenders and investors of at least $248 million.
Ms Torres, 50, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Thomas P. Barber to one year and one day in federal prison for receiving a bribe as a public official.
The settlement concluded a lawsuit originally filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida by relator Jeremy Lavin.
The centre agreed to pay $243,571.25, plus interest, to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act.
