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The Corner House and Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) have today received the Government’s response to letters sent to the Serious Fraud Office, Attorney-General and Prime Minister on 18th December 2006. The Government contests their assertions that the SFO’s decision to drop the BAE-Saudi Arabia investigation was unlawful. The Corner House and
Last night The Corner House and Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) began a legal challenge to the decision to drop the investigation into bribery allegations involving BAE Systems Plc in Saudi Arabia. Lawyers, Leigh Day & Co, acting on behalf of the two organisations, issued letters to the Director of the Serious Fraud Office, the
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and The Corner House have instructed solicitors Leigh Day & Co to consider a legal action against the Attorney General. This is with respect to the decision to end the Serious Fraud Office investigation into allegations of corruption around the sale of military equipment by BAE Systems to Saudi
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has heavily criticised a decision to curtail an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office into BAE Systems, the UK’s biggest arms company. The Government today announced that the investigation was being dropped, adding that it would otherwise last for a further eighteen months. CAAT spokesperson Nicholas Gilby
Claims that a fraud investigation is threatening 50,000 UK jobs at BAE Systems have been exposed as untrue. The claims, which concern the potential loss of a deal to sell Eurofighters to Saudi Arabia, contradict a report commissioned by Eurofighter’s own PR office. The report suggests that the number of UK jobs secured by
Tony Blair has been urged not to curtail fraud investigations into BAE Systems, following claims that the Saudi royal family wants them stopped. The Saudi regime has allegedly pressurised Tony Blair to halt an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into accusations of multimillion pound bribes paid by BAE Systems to Saudi officials.
The UK’s universities own shares in the arms trade worth over £15million, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. 45 universities and university colleges have admitted that they own shares in at least one top arms company. Three institutions – UCL, Trinity Hall Cambridge and the University of Liverpool – each
Hundreds of campaigners have formed a human chain around the headquarters of DESO (Defence Export Services Organisation), a Government unit that secures business for private arms companies. They encircled DESO’s central London offices at 1.00pm today calling for DESO to be shut and labelling the building a Global Danger Zone. The chain involved about
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