Guardian: Brutal politics lesson for corruption investigators

A brutal moment came last Tuesday for the 15-strong team from the Serious Fraud Office, led by assistant director Helen Garlick. The team’s leaders were ordered down to Lord Goldsmith’s offices in Buckingham Gate with their boxes of files. These contained the fruit of more than two years’ digging into allegations that huge Saudi bribes had been paid by arms group BAE Systems to get weapons deals.

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Posted on December 16th, 2006 at 8:41am under Chicken Nuggets, Sleaze, T.W.A.T., UK politics

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