A former executive of U.S. operations at Canadian oil services company Poseidon Concepts pleaded guilty Wednesday to perpetrating a scheme to fraudulently inflate the company’s reported revenue, resulting in more than $886 million in shareholder losses, the Department of Justice announced.

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