World's Biggest Bribe Scandal

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Massive story. The scale of this story is mind blowing!

WORLD'S BIGGEST BRIBE SCANDAL

THE COMPANY THAT BRIBED THE WORLD
It was the company with jet-set style and dirty hands. From the tiny principality of Monaco, Unaoil reached across the globe to pay multi-million dollar bribes in oil rich states. The beneficiaries? Some of the biggest companies in England, Europe, America and Australia.
http://www.theage.com.au/interactive/2016/the-bribe-factory/


Primary Health Care CEO Peter Gregg sues Fairfax Media over oil industry article
http://www.theage.com.au/business/e...-on-oil-industry-article-20160331-gnvru9.html

Authorities in Monaco raid oil firm HQ in corruption investigation
http://www.theguardian.com/business...d-oil-firm-unaoil-hq-corruption-investigation
 
Four days in, and the BBC hasn't even mentioned the biggest bribery scandal in history

On Wednesday, Fairfax and Huffington Post broke the Unaoil story, revealing that they had been leaked a trove of email from an obscure Monaco family business that had acted as a global fixer in bribery and bid-rigging that looted the treasuries and oil-fields of some of the world's poorest countries, from Iraq to Yemen, acting on behalf of blue-chip companies like Rolls-Royce and Halliburton.

By week's end, police in the UK, US and Australia announced criminal investigations against top executives, and the Monaco police raided Unaoil's HQ.

But the BBC -- a national broadcaster charged with impartially reporting on the news -- has literally never mentioned Unaoil in any of its online news coverage. Many of the companies involved in the scandal are headquartered in the UK, and some, like Rolls-Royce, are practically synonymous with British industry. Meanwhile, the news coverage has described how Unaoil used the City of London as its go-to money laundry.

This is a terrible failing that discredits the Beeb, making it seem like financial corruption -- increasingly the brand identity of UK, plc -- is a no-go zone for its coverage.


What the fuck BBC???
 
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