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by Mike Caswell

Vancouver's Naeem Tyab has made some progress in his effort to avoid the "harrowing" prospect of serving his sentence for a 2011 bribery scheme in a medium-security U.S. prison. A federal judge has recommended that Mr. Tyab serve his three-year jail term at FCI Lompoc, a prison in the Los Angeles area. The judge has also recommended that Mr. Tyab be assigned to the jail's minimum-security satellite camp, essentially a dormitory with limited supervision.

The order comes as part of a case in which prosecutors cited Mr. Tyab for a bribery scheme involving Griffiths Energy International Inc., a then-private Calgary company that is now part of Glencore PLC. According to prosecutors, officials from the African country of Chad solicited and accepted bribes from Mr. Tyab and, in return, agreed to use their positions to influence the awarding of oil rights. There was no trial for Mr. Tyab, as he pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The judge later sentenced him to three years in prison.

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