Police hold civil servant in BAE investigation

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Financial Times
By Rohit Jaggi and Mark Hollingsworth

A man was arrested on Thursday by police investigating allegations that the defence company BAE Systems gave free holidays, theatre tickets and other items to a civil servant at the Ministry of Defence.

“The MoD police fraud squad today arrested a suspect on suspicion of committing offences under the prevention of corruption acts whilst in the employment of the MoD's Saudi Armed Forces Project Office,” the MoD fraud squad said.

“The man has been helping police with their inquiries in the course of the day and has now been release on police bail pending further investigation.”

The London-based Saudi Armed Forces Project Office is a department of the Defence Export Services Organisation, the Ministry of Defence's defence exports unit.

More:
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/87c01926-1321-11d9-b869-00000e2511c8.html

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1. More from the Guardian:

MoD arms sales man arrested

David Leigh and Rob Evans
Friday October 1, 2004


The gifts BAE is alleged to have arranged between 2000 and 2002 include:

· A paid holiday at the Hotel Le Bristol, Paris, for Mr Porter and his wife, Sue ;

· A weekend for the couple at the £600-a-night Chewton Glen hotel in the New Forest;

· A London night out for two at the show My Fair Lady, followed by champagne and a suite at Carlton Tower hotel;

· Grandstand tickets plus hospitality for the England v Australia Test match at Lords;

· £240 tickets for a Neil Diamond concert;

· A camera and use of a car.

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade/story/0,10674,1317421,00.html

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2. Carlyle Interested in BAE's Shipbuilding Unit, Telegraph Says

July 25 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. buyout firm Carlyle Group, whose senior advisers have included former President George H.W. Bush, has expressed interest in buying BAE Systems Plc's shipbuilding business, the Sunday Telegraph reported, without citing sources.

The paper said Carlyle hasn't decided if an offer would include BAE's submarine operations at Barrow-in-Furness, England, and the sale of Britain's only submarine business to a foreign company may be politically sensitive.

BAE's Chief Executive Mike Turner said July 12 that Europe's largest weapons maker is in talks with several ``interested parties'' about selling its unprofitable shipbuilding unit, which makes Type 45 destroyers and Astute submarines. The company hasn't yet outlined what assets would be included in a sale.

Any bidder for Barrow would compete with DML, which runs the Devonport Royal Dockyard, and is 51 percent owned by Halliburton Co., the oilfield contractor led by Vice President Dick Cheney before he returned to politics in 2000, the paper said. The U.K.'s VT Group Plc has also said it's interested in BAE's shipbuilding yards in Barrow and Glasgow, Scotland.

more
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=a...


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=708335

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3. During Reagan/Bush/Thatcher BAE "commissions" to Saudis got to OBL

through BCCI.
http://cryptome.org/soil/soiled-dove2.htm