bribery
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Energy & Environment
Former Unaoil boss gets jail-term over Iraqi bribery scandal
A former manager of consultancy Unaoil was sentenced to three years in jail by a London court on Thursday – the second Unaoil executive to be jailed for bribing an Iraqi official to secure a $55 million oil deal after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Stephen Whiteley, a 65-year-old Briton, was found guilty by a jury of conspiring…
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Energy & Environment
Fired Unaoil executives convicted of bribing Iraqi officials
Two former managers of Monaco-based energy consultancy Unaoil have been convicted in Britain of bribing Iraqi officials to clinch lucrative oil projects as the war-ravaged country tried to boost exports after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. A London jury found British-Lebanese Ziad Akle, Unaoil’s former Iraq territory manager, and Stephen Whiteley, a British former manager for Iraq, Kazakhstan…
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Africa
Director of South Africa IT firm charged with attempted police bribe
An executive director of South Africa’s Pinnacle Holdings has been charged with offering a $460,000 bribe to a senior police official to win an equipment contract for the technology company, police said on Tuesday. Takalani Tshivhase allegedly offered the 5 million rand bribe to a Lieutenant General in the South African Police Service (SAPS) in exchange for a multi-million rand…
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Africa
Bribery allegation: Reps to summon Lai Mohammed
The House of Representatives may summon the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Lai Mohammed, over allegation that some of its members in the House were induced with money to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The opposition party had in a statement issued by Mohammed on Tuesday decried the monetary inducement as ‘political…
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