Raedwald (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
More embarrassment for Gordon Brown with the news that the UK may be suspended from the OECD's 37-member anti bribery group when it next meets in October. It's not just the BAE-Saudi deal that in question - and I'm personally equivocal on this - but on our endemic failure to tackle major corporate bribery and corruption. Now this nation has a proud tradition of buccaneers and warrior-merchants, audacious...
Sox First (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Only a few weeks ago, I did a blog entry on how the BAE-Saudi bribery scandal was getting worse. Just how much worse? Well, now we have the Financial Times reporting linking the armaments maker to a company linked to a Zimbabwean arms trader connected to Zimbabwe's despot Robert Mugabe. The FT says this raises questions about BAE's dealings with outside intermediaries who sometimes act as brokers...
The Sun (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
THE highest court in the land rules it was right to halt probe into BAE Saudi arms deal
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) today won its appeal to the Law Lords against a High Court ruling that it acted unlawfully in halting a corruption inquiry into an arms deal between Saudi Arabia and defence giant BAE Systems.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
The Serious Fraud Office was right to call off its investigation into allegedly corrupt arms contracts with Saudi Arabia, law lords say.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
The Serious Fraud Office won its Law Lords appeal today against a court ruling that it acted unlawfully in halting a corruption inquiry into a lucrative arms deal between Saudi Arabia and BAE Systems.
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Italian Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon jets of the type currently being offered to Saudi Arabia. Photograph: Italian Air Force Our lawyers argued that: (a) The rule of law means that an independent prosecutor should not give way to threats. [The technicalities described here refer to the juiciest corruption investigation outside the US in many years. The Transparency International corruption
The Barnsby Blog (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE ARMS TRADE. CAATNEWS June July issue reports a historic victory in the Courts when the High Court quashed the Serious Fraud Office decision into BAE’s Saudi arms deal. This is a major step forward to end the unhealthy influence of arms dealing within government. The decision followed a legal [...]
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
The former head of Britain's arms export agency has been issued with a subpoena by US officials investigating allegations of bribery and corruption over a £43bn arms deal between BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia. Alan Garwood, who is now BAE's business development director, was served with a subpoena in late May - the third executive to have been targeted by the US department of justice inquiry. It is...
Sox First (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
The intrigue surrounding the BAE-Saudi bribery scandal continues with the Financial Times reporting that a third man, BAE's business development director Alan Garwood has been issued with a subpoena by US authorities. BAE chief executive Mike Turner and Sir Nigel Rudd, a BAE non-executive director, have already been issued with subpoenas but this one is particularly significant because it might shed...
Sic Semper Tyrannis 2007 (Free subscription) | 25/05/2008
I think Harper is absolutely right in suggesting that, important though the corruption story may be, the political element -- centering around the 'slush fund' -- is the really significant element in this story. I am curious about, and slightly...
Blood & Treasure (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
I’m not vouching for this, but it's an interesting angle on the ongoing BAE/Saudi scandal: To summarize: BAE delivered about $40 billion in arms and services to Saudi Arabia. BAE padded the bills substantially, up to nearly $80 billion. The...
Solomonia (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Craig Unger: House of cards - From 9/11 to BAE, the Saudis have turned the purchase of political power into a fine art...
Another Green World (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
The ever excellent Schnews report on efforts to shut down showings of a film on the arms trade. Government here is for and by arms dealers, just look at the bill for Trident tax payers are picking up and the drive to war in Iraq and the BAE/Saudi affair. LIKE A VERGO ON? It seems that even students are in the firing line when in comes to censorship in UK plc. In an unprecedented lack of concern for...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 25/04/2008
THE High Court in London yesterday quashed the decision of the Serious Fraud Office to drop an investigation into deals between BAE and Saudi Arabia, and gave the SFO permissi
