FORMER UNAOIL EXECUTIVE PLEADS GUILTY TO CORRUPTION
July 1st, 2019
A former executive of oil consultancy company, Unaoil, last week (July 15) pleaded guilty to conspiracy to give corrupt payments in a UK court case brought by Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO). Basil Al Jarah, whom the SFO described as “Unaoil’s former partner in Iraq,” pleaded guilty in Southwark Crown Court to five charges of conspiracy to give corrupt payments linked to the award of contracts to supply and install single point moorings and oil pipelines in southern Iraq. Al Jarah was the first defendant to plead guilty since SFO started its ...
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