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    Jonathan Taylor locked up for blowing whistle on Dutch SBM Offshore

    In 2012, Jonathan Taylor blew the whistle on the standard practice of bribing locals to get good deals by the Dutch multinational SBM Offshore.
    As a result SBM Offshore was offered a sweetheart settlement by the Dutch prosecution office (OM) of 240 million euros and SBM sued Taylor in Monaco and the Netherlands for defamation.

    From Monaco an extradition request was issued, leading to his arrest on 30 July 2020 and release on bail in Croatia (where he has remained since).
    Jonathan Taylor foolishly hoped that the British Government would help a good Englishman like him (they really don't like people exposing corruption in the British isles), Taylor reacted naively, "I have been abandoned by my own government".

    At the request of the British Ambassador in Croatia, Jonathan Taylor foolishly issued a written statement that he suffers from depression and suicidal tendencies. So then the Croatian cops came to "help" him, arresting him and forcibly injecting him with sedatives.
    Taylor was released but is disappointed in the British Embassy, "Instead of helping me, they turn me over to the Croatian police and give me the worst 24 hours of my life".

    How this Taylor fellow has ever earned a law degree is beyond my comprehension (in Dutch): https://www.nu.nl/economie/6128802/s...nrichting.html
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    As of 6 April 2021, Jonathan Taylor has spent 252 days in legal limbo in Croatia solely for blowing the whistle in the public interest regarding widespread corruption that has resulted in investigations in the UK, the US, Brazil, Switzerland and the Netherlands and fines against SBM Offshore amounting to $827 million USD, as well as the conviction of two former CEOs for fraud-related offences. Taylor should not continue to be persecuted for an action that strengthens the public’s right to know, encourages lawful, transparent and fair business practices and reinforces European democracy.
    https://www.corruptionanonymous.org/...nathan-taylor/
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    The following is a good overview story on the SBM Offshore bribing scandal, and Jonathan Taylor (before he was detained in Croatia)...
    SBM Offshore, in 1971 relocated from the Netherlands to the Principality of Monaco. SBM is the market leader in the sale and lease of Floating Production Storage and Offloading units (FPSOs), platforms which extract, process and store oil and gas at sea.

    While working for SBM, Jonathan Taylor discovered that “The business model of SBM was simple. We got the orders by paying bribes”. SBM's management board secretly added appendices to contracts, and these additional clauses described huge bribes, "commissions" to third party agents.
    On 31 January 2012, the whole scandal was exposed, when an American lawyer for Noble Energy, a business partner of SBM, calls SBM HQ about incriminating information on bribes that SBM paid in Equatorial Guinea from 2005 to 2011. About $275 million had been paid in "commissions" to agents in Brazil, Angola and Equatorial Guinea, Iraq, Malaysia and Italy.
    In Angola, numerous bribes were paid to employees of state-owned oil company Sonangol.

    Brazil immediately stood out. SBM Offshore earned 60% of its revenues from Brazil, with "current contracts" there worth at least 25 billion euros. In the same period, $139 million in commissions was paid to Julio Faerman, much of it going to Petrobras.
    What made the news extra spicy was that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff had been the chair of Petrobras’ Supervisory Board from 2003 to 2010, and many of the directors were appointees from her Workers’ Party.

    Accountants from PwC and lawyers from De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek and US lawyer Tim Dickinson of Paul Hastings LLP were hired to cover-up the scandal.
    A week after the phonecall from the American lawyer for Noble Energy, Jonathan Taylor saw his next-door neighbour, Jean Philippe Laurès, destroying a dozen bin bags of incriminatin evidence, “I walked in and found Jean Philippe at his shredder. I couldn’t believe my eyes. One of the directors was destroying evidence!"
    De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek lawyer Marnix Sommsen explained that “we want to produce as little paper as possible [because] it might be discoverable at a later stage” and “Yes, there is a prohibition on bribes from a Dutch perspective… [but] that said, it is not enforced at all”.
    That's the same corrupt law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek that while representing me in front of the Dutch Supreme Court, was pleading against me...

    While in Brazil this became a genuine scandal, in the Netherlands this was simply covered up. Jonathan Taylor wasn't satisfied that the Dutch Public Prosecutor (OM) in banana monarchy the Kingdom of the Netherlands covered up the scandal with the 240 million dollar out-of-court settlement:
    I had expected in a first-world country such as Holland that justice would prevail. But commercial interests apparently trumped the search for truth.
    The OM knew about the size and severity of the corruption and it has allowed SBM to keep denying the corruption in Brazil. The OM is protecting SBM and is thereby complicit in not revealing price sensitive information.
    https://www.vn.nl/the-cover-up-at-du...inational-sbm/
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    Isn't it strange how the criminal activity of the Dutch SBM Offshore has been sold to the gullible public as corruption in Brazil, Angola and Equatorial Guinea?

    Since 1997, Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras received bribes from the Dutch company SBM Offshore. Four pre-trial detention warrants were served, two of which were against former directors arrested in Operation Car Wash, Renato Duque and Jorge Zelada.
    Former SBM representative in Brazil Júlio Faerman explained that he guaranteed "significant gains" for Petrobras while acting on behalf of the Dutch SBM.

    Police also searched the offices and homes of respondents of oil prospecting company Petroserv. Petroserv received transfers of 3% to 5% of "games contracts" (bad translation of Portuguese?) from Petrobras and sent 1% of these "commissions" to companies abroad.
    This money was laundered and then came back to Brazil as bribes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offsho...ation_Car_Wash
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    It does seem like any resource extraction enterprise attracts a lot of highwaymen, trying to siphon off profits.
    There may be slightly better situation with domestic US production - more market, less intervention and crime.

    I don't see that it's legit to deflect any blame from PetroBas. It's a corruption wholesale, bottom to top. To deal with that corruption you need to run with bribes. Not fully understanding Firestarter's indignation here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by merkelstan View Post
    I don't see that it's legit to deflect any blame from PetroBas. It's a corruption wholesale, bottom to top. To deal with that corruption you need to run with bribes. Not fully understanding Firestarter's indignation here.
    It's corruption top to bottom with the corrupt politicians/businessmen in banana republics blamed, while the "noble" elite of North America and West Europe can continue to plunder and loot...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Firestarter View Post
    It's corruption top to bottom with the corrupt politicians/businessmen in banana republics blamed, while the "noble" elite of North America and West Europe can continue to plunder and loot...
    Idunno, the state is in control of PetroBas, and Pumping oil out of the ground shouldn't require tech or resources from the west. Western businessmen aren't in a position to plunder Brazil or Argentina, and they don't. Only our governments which block trade and sponsor revolutions in those countries do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by merkelstan View Post
    Idunno, the state is in control of PetroBas, and Pumping oil out of the ground shouldn't require tech or resources from the west.
    Say what?!?

    At this time, it is the police state loving, Brazilian Trump, president Jair Bolsonaro that decides on who gets appointed to the board of Petrobras.
    The very corrupt Brazilian Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes affiliated with none other than George Soros, criticised Bolsonaro's decision to dismiss Petrobras President Roberto Castello Branco.

    Bolsonaro appointed the general Joaquim Silva e Luna as president of Petrobras instead.
    The government also re-elected 2 others who have served in the Armed Forces - admiral Eduardo Bacellar Leal Ferreira and reserve officer Ruy Flaks Schneider: https://aw-journal.com/government-el...4-2021-market/


    Quote Originally Posted by merkelstan View Post
    Western businessmen aren't in a position to plunder Brazil or Argentina, and they don't. Only our governments which block trade and sponsor revolutions in those countries do.
    Complete bull$hit! Plundering the world by the elite has been done for centuries. Because those same elites control the government, they can get rid of competition by blocking trade.

    Revolutions have also been sponsored by Anglo-American intelligence, especially when the country has enormous natural resources (maybe Brazil isn't the best example of this).
    Bolsonaro's election was orchestrated by the British royal controlled SCL Group (the same that worked on Donald's and Ted Cruz's presidential campaigns).

    Donald's buddy Carl Icahn and British agent Wilbur Ross have made a nice profit from the "free trade" (and sanctions) in Brazil.
    Quote Originally Posted by Firestarter View Post
    See Donald Trump and his billionaire friend Carl Icahn.
    Brazil-s-Leftist-Workers-Party-Dominates-Polls#post6736726
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    Quote Originally Posted by Firestarter View Post
    Say what?!?

    At this time, it is the police state loving, Brazilian Trump, president Jair Bolsonaro that decides on who gets appointed to the board of Petrobras.
    The very corrupt Brazilian Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes affiliated with none other than George Soros, criticised Bolsonaro's decision to dismiss Petrobras President Roberto Castello Branco.

    Bolsonaro appointed the general Joaquim Silva e Luna as president of Petrobras instead.
    I see you are not a student of Ron Paul.

    If the government assumes the illegitimate authority to interfere with buying and selling, then those illegitimate policies will be purchased and influenced by people with the money to do so.

    Have you even read Bastiat, "The Law"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by merkelstan View Post
    If the government assumes the illegitimate authority to interfere with buying and selling, then those illegitimate policies will be purchased and influenced by people with the money to do so.
    I see that you continue to post BS comments to derail threads.

    It is really the wonderful "noble" elite from West Europe and North America that not only control the government where they reside, but also in the (never) "developing" countries, like Brazil, using the one world government (UN, World Bank, IMF, etc), bribes, and staged corruption scandals...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Firestarter View Post
    Isn't it strange how the criminal activity of the Dutch SBM Offshore has been sold to the gullible public as corruption in Brazil, Angola and Equatorial Guinea?
    Maybe it isn't surprising that worldwide bribing only led to a media hysteria in Brazil, if the objective was really to get the Workers Party of then Brazilian president, the Communist Dilma Rousseff, out of power.
    Ironically Rousseff was ousted in an impeachment that was staged at the same time as the Car Wash operation, but for "breaking budget laws" (instead of taking Petrobras bribes).

    It looks like Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato) was really a foreign US coup against the Workers Party led by the FBI! While this doesn't seem in violation of US laws (fighting "terrorism"?), it sure is in violation of the laws of the "independent" state Brazil.
    When Brazilian prosecutors talked about an informal request to the FBI, prosecutor Paulo Roberto Galvão argued that a direct demand to the FBI would be better, since the American department had “full knowledge of the probes”, while Brazilian authorities did not.

    Former Brazilian president Lulu commented:
    We have been denouncing this collusion between the US Department of Justice and Car Wash for years. We have pointed out concrete facts, and they called them conspiracy theory. Now it is being brought up.
    https://comitelulalivre.org/en/lula-...-was-the-goal/
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    I see why nobody has conversations with you. You include my comment in your post, but either don't address my point, or you misconstrue it completely. .

    You've done this like 4 times now. So that's enough for me.

    For the rest who might read this; Firestarter is a typical European socialist who assumes it's natural and correct for the State to have the authority to completely control every aspect of our lives. Then he continually blames the result of that tyranny on the subjects of it, never blaming the State.

    That is state idolatry... "those mean private actors have corrupted my beautiful socialist-interventionist State!"...
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    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    Will the troll stop derailing threads as promised?!?

    I was looking for more scandals involving the Dutch SBM Offshore. This appears to be a much larger bribery, money laundering scandal than the Petrobras Car Wash investigation.
    The biggest (?) bribery scandal in the world, involves Unaoil that was headquartered in Monaco (just like the essentially Dutch SBM Offshore).
    It involves the oil rich Iraq, whose infrastructure was completely destroyed through years of sanctions, and finished off in the 2003 bombing campaign to install a regime that's even more "democratic" than CIA-asset Saddam Hussein.

    Unaoil won contracts for oil companies by paying bribes. Unaoil worked as an "agent" for major companies like Halliburton, Honeywell, KBR and FMC Technologies from the US; the Korean Samsung and Hyundai; British Rolls-Royce; MAN from Germany; and of course SBM Offshore.
    Unaoil was SBM Offshore's agent in Iraq. Unaoil worked for SBM to secure contracts on the Iraq Crude Oil Expansion Project, to connect oil fields via pipelines with offshore terminals where large tankers could moor.

    There are documents on the wheeling and dealing of SBM Offshore and Unaoil in Iraq between 2007 and 2012.
    In November 2009, Unaoil's Basil al-Jarah wrote to his bosses in Monaco after meeting "Lighthouse". The codename for Dhia Jaffar al-Mousawi, at that time director general at the Southern Oil Company and "currently" (2016) deputy minister of petroleum affairs, who received millions of dollars in kickbacks over the years. Al-Jarah wrote that according to Dhia Jaffar al-Mousawi "It looks like the SPM job is heading to SBM".
    On 9 February 2010 there is an email exchange between Unaoil employees Zaki Tackle and Steve Whiteley. In one of those strange coincidences, Whiteley had previously worked for SBM Offshore. Tackle writes that "Ivan" must push the "European chains" with the Iraqi Oil company. "Ivan" turned out to be Oday al-Quraishi, project director of the Southern Oil Company.

    On 26 April 2011, the contract for the first 3 platforms was awarded to SBM. Later another 4 SPM’s were awarded to SBM.
    SBM paid Unaoil $4,617,282 between 2005 and 2011. In April 2012, when they where covering up the Petrobras scandal after the Noble Energy call, SBM noted that Unaoil’s fees had been suspiciously high: https://www.vn.nl/unaoil-papers-sbm-offshore-leak-iraq/
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    It's looking like Jonathan Taylor is another "limited hangout operation", being pushed into the spotlight with a "scandal" to cover-up even worse scandals, like the biggest bribing ring in the world - centered around Unaoil...


    Unaoil was (and is?) led by its founder Ata Ahsani and his 2 sons, Cyrus and Saman.
    Cyrus Ahsani is treasurer of Monaco’s Ambassador's Club, led by Prince Albert II of Monaco. The prince's close friend, Mike Powers, sits on Unaoil's advisory board for $50,000 a year. In 2018, that same Prince Albert rejected a request by the SFO to extradite Saman Ashani to the UK.
    The same Prince Albert attended the 2005 Florida wedding of Donald Trump to Melania Knauss.

    Banks in New York and London have facilitated Unaoil’s money laundering, while the Ahsanis also have a property investment business in central London.
    Since 2007, Unaoil has been certified by "anti-corruption" agency Trace International...

    Unaoil has been bribing politicians in Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Kuwait, and the UAE to win large contracts for its clients.
    Its clients included: the British Rolls-Royce and Petrofac; from the US Halliburton, FMC Technologies, Cameron and Weatherford; Australia’s Leighton Holdings; and Samsung and Hyundai in Korean; Italian Eni and Saipem; German companies MAN Turbo (now MAN Diesal & Turbo) and Siemens; Indian giant Larsen & Toubro; and of course the Dutch SBM Offshore.

    Unaoil’s clients in Iraq included Rolls-Royce, FMC Technologies, Cameron, Saipem, MAN Turbo, Weatherford, Australia’s Leighton Offshore and SBM Offshore.
    Between 2004 and 2012, in Iraq Unaoil bribed the Deputy Prime Minister turned education minister Hussain al-Shahristani; Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi; Director General of the South Oil Company Dhia Jaffar al-Mousawi (who in 2015 became a deputy minister); and top oil official Oday al-Quraishi: https://www.theage.com.au/interactiv...the-world.html
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    The UK's SFO wanted to prosecute Unaoil's executive Saman Ahsani, but his extradition from Rome (?) was blocked by Prince Albert of Monaco and the US DoJ (how could Albert and the US block is extradition from Italy?).
    Ahsani had so much confidence in the US Department of Justice, that he fought being extradited to the UK, so he could get a lenient sentence in the US.

    Tom Martin, who led the British bribery investigation into the Ahsani family and Unaoil, was a little too serious about getting Saman Ahsani prosecuted in the UK, so was fired because the Ahsanis (or maybe some of the big oil companies Unaoil was bribing for?) wanted him removed from the Unaoil case.
    I find it inescapable that the U.S. agencies and the [Ahsani] defence team had the same reason for raising the complaints, namely that they wanted the claimant removed so as to prevent difficulty with their joint wish to have Mr Ahsani extradited to the U.S.
    https://kfgo.com/2021/02/17/ex-uk-pr...ployment-case/
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    I always thought that lying Donald promised to decrease the amount corruption with his "Drain the swamp" slogan.
    Already in February 2017, US President Donald Trump repealed the Cardin-Lugar rule, under the Dodd-Frank Act, that forced oil companies to disclose payments to foreign governments to secure oil or mining deals (a.k.a. bribes, kickbacks, or commissions).

    Trump and the oil companies claimed that it would be unfair competition if the oil companies in other countries could get their hand on lucrative deals, while America's oil couldn't bribe them just the same (if I understand correctly?).
    And that this would create oil jobs in the US.

    So now corruption is needed to create jobs? I thought that corruption enriches the lucky few and especially politicians in high places...
    Repealing this disclosure rule wouldn't only apply to US companies, but also to foreign oil companies, so this couldn't make US companies more "competitive"!

    It also seems strange to me that while paying bribes would still be illegal (I guess), corporations wouldn't have to report this.
    I can see how this could benefit Saman Ahsani: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/14/trum...cates-say.html
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    From 2007 until 2010, Unaoil secretly worked for a cartel of South Korean companies to get their hands on $1.8 billion contracts from Algeria’s state-owned oil company Sonatrach. In one email a Unaoil executive wrote to Algerian oil officials:
    Our friends... want to help us in this game ... This is by far the biggest opportunity they ever had and probably the last big one they can get. I don’t think they will give up.
    Unaoil’s South Korean clients were awarded the contracts, and Unaoil received $16 million in commissions. One Algerian official received a cool $750,000.

    Spanish firm Tecnicas Reunidas hired Unaoil to lobby for a $750 million Tunisian oil refinery deal. Their arrangement delivered 4%, or $30 million, to Unaoil.
    A Unaoil executive explained the size of the fee:
    Essentially, the fee amount is a key part of the agreement and very important to our partners in Tunisia. “The Tunisian end needs 2% min, if not then no deal. They state that Tecnicas Reunidas will get this single source [without a competitive tender], if this goes ahead.
    In 2004, Unaoil was working for Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR). KBR suspected foul play by another US corporation, the Marathon Oil Company to win a major contract from the Equatorial Guinea government. In 2004, Unaoil CEO Cyrus Ahsani passed Mohamed Salaam, scion of a Lebanese oil clan, a secret message from KBR.
    In 2008, Mohamed Salaam and British special forces soldier Simon Mann were arrested, charged and convicted of plotting a coup to overthrow Equatorial Guinea’s brutal leader, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
    Mann told that Sir Mark Thatcher (son of former UK prime minister Lady of the Garter Margaret Thatcher) and oil man Ely Calil, were both part of the plot. Salaam was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Mann was sentenced to 34 years in jail but was already released in 2009: https://www.theage.com.au/interactiv...-3/africa.html
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    Unaoil was literally the "go-to" bribery fixer for a wide variety of energy companies. The countries where Unaoil engaged in bribery included “Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Libya and Syria”.
    Unaoil's and the Ahsanis' illegal acts included “bid-rigging, paying kickbacks and laundering of the proceeds of the corrupt schemes” right up until 2016.

    There were 25 companies identified that engaged Unaoil for corrupt acts. In addition, another 2 companies were named and several others were named in other news reports. This list of 27 companies included 2 which have previously admitted violating the FCPA - Rolls Royce and (of course) SBM Offshore.
    While not identified, another Unaoil client, TechnipFMC also pled guilty to FCPA violations in the summer of 2019.

    From other sources it appears that at least 30 companies have been tied to corrupt acts by Unaoil, but most of the media never bothered to investigate and report on which companies retained Unaoil and who worked with the Ahsani family.
    I'm afraid that the author of the following article "forgot" to identify all of these "at least 30 companies": https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/th...eas-the-37732/
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    Have you still not noticed nobody else responding to you.

    It's because you never address the points people bring up.

    But hey it's cool. Keep bloggin dude. I am nerd enough to learn from your posts.

    Just .. we are not going to have conversations about them. And notice - NOBODY ELSE WILL, WITH YOU.

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    How very surprising, Merkeltroll didn't keep its promise to stay away "You've done this like 4 times now. So that's enough for me", and just continues posting BS, and ad hominems...


    Besides trolling "my" threads, since 3 March, Merkeltroll has been desperately trying to influence me by spamming my inbox to become my "friend". Including false flattery like.
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    Some interesting info and good analysis there. Truthtelling is powerful and you do it well.
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    On 30 July 2020, the British Stephen Whiteley and the British-Lebanese Ziad Akle, who had both worked as Unaoil's territory managers for Iraq while Whiteley was also previously employed by SBM Offshore, were sentenced to respectively 3 and 5 years in prison.
    In March 2021, former sales manager for SBM Offshore, Paul Bond, was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in jail for bribing public officials to win oil contracts in Iraq.

    These sentences were issued in the UK for paying bribes in Iraq for the Dutch company SBM Offshore to clinch $1.7 billion worth of oil projects.
    Unaoil’s former Iraq country manager, Iraqi-born Basil al-Jarah, admitted paying $17 million in bribes.

    Brothers Cyrus and Saman Ahsani await sentencing in the US after pleading guilty to bribery in 2019 (still waiting?): https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/...q-bribery-plot
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    The British Steven Hunter has also pleaded guilty.
    The Australian Leighton hired Unaoil in 2010 and 2011 to pay millions of dollars in bribes for a slice of a $2 billion oil pipeline project in Iraq, to Iraqi officials including then deputy prime minister Hussein al-Shahristani and oil minister Abdul Karim Luaibi.

    The frustrating thing about the Unaoil bribery scandal, is that I know that there's got to be a lot more, but I can't find it.
    We can't even say that all the companies that hired Unaoil were corrupt, as it was TRACE certified.

    Another big Unaoil client is the Italian multinational ENI: https://avalanches.com/world_news/au...536_18_11_2020


    The big corporations that hired Unaoil, include the infamous BP and Royal Dutch Shell.
    If I understand correctly Unaoil worked for these gigantic oil companies in Iraq (maybe related to the Basrah Gas Company?): http://web.archive.org/web/202101261...il-unaoil.html
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    So now several Unaoil clients have been charged over corruption charges (including SBM Offshore) and Unaoil was prosecuted for bribes in Iraq.
    Unaoil also worked for Royal Dutch Shell in Iraq. But Shell isn't named as one of the companies involved in bribing and corruption in this regard. Another former Unaoil client is the Italian ENI (also in Iraq?) that also isn't often reported as implicated in the Unaoil bribing ring.
    There is however another huge scandal that involves both Shell and ENI, but here Unaoil isn't mentioned...

    In Italy, Royal Dutch Shell and Italian oil major Eni were charged for bribing former Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete and its President Goodluck Jonathan.
    Etete has been convicted for money laundering in Nigeria (in absentia?).

    This was related to the 2011 $1.3 billion purchase of (part?) of the 500 billion dollars worth Nigerian oilfield OPL 245.
    A March 2010 email forwarded to then-Shell CEO Peter Voser, shows that Shell knew a year before the deal was finalised that money would flow directly to Etete:
    Etete can smell the money. If, at 70 years old, he does turn his nose up at [$1.2bn], he is completely certifiable and we should then just hold out until nature takes his course with him.
    .
    In 2018, 2 middlemen in the OPL 245 deal, Nigerian Emeka Obi and Italian Gianluca Di Nardo, were sentenced to 4 years in prison for corruption by an Italian court.
    The judge said Eni and Shell were fully aware the deal would result in bribes to Nigerian politicians and officials.

    But then on 17 March 2021, the Italian court acquitted Shell and Eni of the corruption charges.
    The Federal Republic of Nigeria is disappointed in today’s ruling in Milan, but thanks the Italian prosecuting authorities for their tireless efforts.
    It isn't quite clear to me why this court case over bribery in Nigeria, wasn't prosecuted in Nigeria, but now Nigeria "will continue to hold those responsible for the OPL 245 fraud accountable" and wants to prosecute Shell and ENI again in Nigeria: https://www.globalwitness.org/en/pre...tain-on-italy/
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  27. #24
    Nah you dig up some interesting stuff. You're just a statist though.



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    Limited hangout operation, lawyer Jonathan Taylor, who didn't expose the worst scandals surrounding the Dutch multinational SBM Offshore, can leave Croatia where he had continued his vacation since July 2020 to go back to his home in the UK: https://whistleblowersblog.org/blog/...-from-croatia/.


    Jonathan Taylor "forgot" to expose how Unaoil and people involved in "coup" that was staged to make the brutal dictator of Equatorial Guinea more popular were associated with SBM Offshore: British-failed-Wonga-coup-Equatorial-Guinea
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