The UK Ministry of Defense had a “suspicious” bank account in Saudi Arabia as far back as 2011, during the corruption scandal known as Al Yamama and the Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) investigation into a corrupt deal with Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan (former former chairman) made payments. Saudi intelligence services and the kingdom’s former ambassador in Washington). This was reported by Guard.
The publication cites documents disclosed during the lawsuit against Jeffrey Cook and John Mason over the GPT Special Project Management deal with the Saudis.
According to them, the UK Ministry of Defense created a new payment system for a senior Saudi official in 2006 after the completion of the corruption investigation in the Al-Yamamah deal. The deal involved the supply of weapons worth £40bn to Saudi Arabia from the largest British manufacturer, BAE Systems.
The publication notes that from 1988 to 2007, the UK Ministry of Defense and the UAE used a secret system to send quarterly payments to Prince Bandar bin Sultan.
The documents show that every few months the Saudi prince sent a Defense Ministry official responsible for promoting arms sales “with a request for payment of the next installment.”
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