Through David Alexander and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus stated on Friday he knew a few Navy contracting investigation for months earlier than it erupted into an incredible bribery scandal and that Navy investigators planted false information that helped result in the first arrests in the case. In his first public feedback on the scandal involving maritime services agency Glenn Safeguard Marine Asia and its colorful chief govt Leonard Glenn Francis, Mabus said there could be “extra disclosures” within the case, which has thus far ended in motion against six senior Navy officers and an investigator. Francis, a forty nine-year-previous Malaysia native, is accused of giving prostitutes, cash, luxurious commute and concert tickets to Navy officers in exchange for information to help him win millions of greenbacks in trade at ports across Asia. He stated he had informed Navy investigators to pursue the probe “at any place it leads” and that an independent federal investigation had “pulled no punches.” If federal prosecutors come to a decision to not charge some folks concerned, Mabus said the Navy would appoint a 4-megastar admiral and a workforce of pros to examine the allegations and dangle folks “correctly responsible.” The scandal broke in mid-September after Francis, referred to as “Fat Leonard” in armed forces circles, used to be lured from his Singapore base to San Diego for what he believed would be a gathering with Navy officers however used to be as a substitute arrested by means of federal authorities.