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March 31, 2016

FBI, DOJ Launch Probe of Unaoil, After Exposé Shows Global Corruption
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The FBI, the Department of Justice and British and Australian
authorities have launched a joint investigation into the Moroccan
company Unaoil, which brokers contracts between governments and
international oil service giants. This comes after The Huffington Post
and Australia's Fairfax Media published a multi-part exposé based on
thousands of leaked documents showing how Unaoil paid million-dollar
bribes to government officials in Iraq, Libya, Kazakhstan, Syria,
Tunisia and other countries to broker contracts for some of the world's
largest companies, including Halliburton and its former subsidiary KBR.
The exposé also shows how U.S. military contractor Honeywell colluded to
conceal bribes in Iraq contracts. Reporters are calling it the biggest
leak of files in the history of the oil industry.
Topics:FBINatural Gas & Oil Drilling Iraq Libya Syria Tunisia

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