A Malaysian businessman has been jailed for his role in an unprecedented bribery scandal scandal who rocked on US Navy.

Leonard Glenn Francis, 60, also known as “Fat Leonard,” was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in federal prison, according to Department of Justice. He was also ordered to pay $20 million in restitution to the US Navy and a $150,000 fine.

Francis’ company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia, was also sentenced to five years’ probation and ordered to pay a $36 million fine.

The convicted fraudster admitted to a scam in which he bribed senior Navy officials with millions of dollars in cash, sex workers, first-class travel expenses, luxury hotel stays, watches, Spanish suckling pigs and Cuban cigars.

In return, Francis received large amounts of classified information from the Navy, including about competitors’ naval bids, port visits and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, court documents show. He also overcharged the Navy by $35 million for his company’s services by routinely overcharging for fuel, tugs and sewage disposal.

In 2013, Francis was arrested and pleaded guilty to bribery and fraud charges two years later.

But he then fled the US, cutting off his GPS monitor while under house arrest, to avoid a sentencing hearing in September 2022.

He fled to Mexico, Cuba and finally Venezuela – where he was arrested and extradited to the US in December 2023.

Kelly P Mayo, director of the US Department of Defense’s Office of the Inspector General, Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), said in a statement Tuesday: “Mr. Francis’ conviction ends an expansive scheme of fraud … (that) ultimately cost the American taxpayer millions of dollars and undermined public confidence in some of our Navy’s most senior leaders.”