CALL FOR AUDIT OF UK DEFENCE DEPARTMENT LINKS TO SAUDI GRAFT
April 19th, 2024
Campaign groups Spotlight on Corruption and Transparency International UK are calling for Britain’s National Audit Office (NAO) to probe the country’s ministry of defence’s (MoD’s) involvement in a British-Saudi graft scandal.
The two organisations wrote to the UK’s public spending watchdog after former managing director of Airbus subsidiary GPT Special Project Management, Jeffrey Cook, and accountant John Mason were acquitted of corruption last month because the MoD was complicit in them paying bribes to win Saudi defence contracts. GPT paid more than ...
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