http://www.corruptionisacrime.com It's time to end dodgy dealing: back our Al Yamamah campaign Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:45:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The arms company BAE is alleged to have paid more than £100m to officials from the South African government, in order to secure a deal to sell aircraft worth £1.6bn. From the Guardian: More than £100m was secretly paid by the arms company BAE to sell warplanes to South Africa, according ... http://www.corruptionisacrime.com/2008/12/09/bae-accused-of-financially-incentivising-politicians-in-south-africa/ From the Financial Times: A top BAE Systems executive and ex-defence official has been questioned by investigators over a suspected bribery plot involving a Viennese count to win European arms contracts, the Financial Times has learned. Julian Scopes – BAE’s former head of government affairs and former private secretary to Alan Clark, ... http://www.corruptionisacrime.com/2008/10/23/bae-chief-quizzed-in-suspected-bribery-probe/ From The Guardian: People around the world believe that Britain has become a markedly more corrupt country, according to a league table published yesterday. Britain has slipped down the rankings of a table compiled yearly by the group Transparency International, following political scandals and the government's failure to prosecute over alleged bribery. The ... http://www.corruptionisacrime.com/2008/09/24/people-believe-britain-has-become-more-corrupt/ The Financial Times reports: BAE Systems, the British arms manufacturer under investigation in several countries for alleged bribery, paid at least £20m to a company linked to a Zimbabwean arms trader allied to President Robert Mugabe, documents seen by the Financial Times show... The payments raise fresh questions about BAE’s dealings with ... http://www.corruptionisacrime.com/2008/08/01/bae-faces-questions-over-robert-mugabe-links/ The Law Lords have finally ruled on the Serious Fraud Office's appeal against the High Court's decision in April that the SFO acted unlawfully in ending its investigation into the Al-Yamamah arms deal. The House of Lords has overturned that decision and declared that the director of the SFO acted lawfully ... http://www.corruptionisacrime.com/2008/07/31/lords-criticise-ending-of-sfo-investigation/ Associated Press reports: Swiss authorities have widened a corruption investigation linked to arms deals by the British aerospace company BAE Systems PLC, prosecutors said. Federal prosecutors are conducting three criminal investigations into possible money laundering linked to the company, spokeswoman Jeannette Balmer told The Associated Press late Wednesday. Previously prosecutors had confirmed only one ... http://www.corruptionisacrime.com/2008/07/10/bae-faces-two-new-swiss-corruption-investigations/ The Guardian reports that US Department of Justice officials investigating bribery and corruption allegations in relation to the Al-Yamamah arms deal between BAE and Saudi Arabia have issued a subpoena to BAE's business development director Alan Garwood: Until last year, Garwood led a team of 600 civil servants at the Defence ... http://www.corruptionisacrime.com/2008/06/06/bae-director-issued-with-us-subpoena/ The Telegraph reports: City grandee Sir Nigel Rudd, chairman of airports operator BAA and deputy chairman of Barclays Bank, was one of the two BAE Systems executives detained briefly last week by US officials investigating allegations of corruption by the UK defence company. Sir Nigel, a non-executive director at BAE, was issued ... http://www.corruptionisacrime.com/2008/05/19/two-top-bae-staff-detained-in-the-us/ As the BBC reports: A review into business practices at defence firm BAE Systems has called for tougher anti-bribery measures. The study by Lord Woolf, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, set out 23 recommendations for the firm. Lord Woolf said the report provided a "route map" for BAE to ensure ... http://www.corruptionisacrime.com/2008/05/06/bae-review-finds-company-had-ethical-failings/ Tanzania's infrastructure minister, Andrew Chenge, resigned at the weekend after "being allegedly linked to a controversial BAE Systems defence contract that is being investigated by Britain's Serious Fraud Office", the Daily Telegraph reports. The newspaper provides some background information: The SFO is probing a 2002 contract under which BAE supplied Tanzania with ... http://www.corruptionisacrime.com/2008/04/22/do-ministers-in-tanzania-take-more-responsibility-than-in-the-uk/