Former Commonwealth Bank of Australia executive Keith Hunter's legal troubles have deepened on two US fronts, with Los Angeles prosecutors and America's financial watchdog announcing they have launched action against him for the $US98 million ($A128 million) software company scandal.  Hunter, a 62-year-old American scheduled to be sentenced in Sydney in December after pleading guilty to two counts of bribery in June, will face the US charges when his Australian case is resolved.  The US Attorney's Office in Los Angeles announced on Tuesday that Hunter has been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud and one count of wire fraud.  The US charges carry a maximum term of 45-years in federal prison.  The US Securities and Exchange Commission also filed a civil complaint on Tuesday against Hunter charging him with securities fraud.  "International boundaries do not limit the FBI from working with our foreign and domestic partners to hold accountable individuals who engage in commercial bribery and securities fraud," Deirdre Fike, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office, said.  Hunter, the Surrey Hills-based former executive general manager in charge of infrastructure and operations at CBA , is accused of participating in a scheme with co-conspirators in Australia and the US to fraudulently generate revenue for Santa Monica-based software company ServiceMesh.  ServiceMesh was being purchased by Computer Sciences Corporation.  In the scheme, members of the conspiracy in late 2013 and early 2014 caused CBA to purchase $US10 million in goods and services from ServiceMesh, prosecutors said.  CBA employees, including Hunter, received kickbacks from a senior executive of ServiceMesh in exchange for awarding the $US10 million in contracts to ServiceMesh, according to documents filed in the US District Court.  Solely as a result of the scheme ServiceMesh reached a performance goal that triggered CSC to pay a $US98 million "earnout payment" to ServiceMesh shareholders in March 2014, it was alleged.  "The information alleges that a portion of the 'earnout payment' received by the senior executive of ServiceMesh who was involved in the scheme funded the kickbacks paid to CBA employees, including payments to Hunter of approximately $US630,000," prosecutors said in a statement.  The US Attorney's Office thanked the NSW Police Force's fraud and cybercrime squad for its assistance in this investigation.
After CBA executive Keith Hunter's Australian court case is completed, he faces more charges and 45 years in jail in the US