A Malaysian ship-supply contractor who bribed U.S. Navy officials to secure tens of millions of dollars in military contracts and fled the country after pleading guilty was sentenced on Tuesday to 15 years in prison, federal prosecutors said.

The contractor, Leonard Glenn Francis, 60, gave dozens of Navy officials and defense contractors cash and luxury items, like Spanish suckling pigs, as well as the services of prostitutes to secure contracts for his business, Glenn Defense Marine Asia, according to his 2015 plea agreement. But in September 2022, while he was in San Diego awaiting to be sentenced, Mr. Francis, who was also known as Fat Leonard, cut off his GPS ankle monitor and fled to Mexico and Cuba.

He was arrested in Venezuela two weeks later and brought back to the United States in December 2023. His most recent sentence reflects his original guilty plea of bribery and fraud, his cooperation with the government and his second guilty plea for failing to appear for his original sentencing hearing in 2022, prosecutors said.

“He disregarded the law and lined his pockets by bribing U.S. Navy officials and others to exploit sensitive national security information,” Omar Lopez, the director of Naval Criminal Investigative Service, said.

A news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California stated that “over the course of several years, Mr. Francis met with government investigators dozens of times to discuss unprecedented levels of corruption within the U.S. Navy.”