{"id":562,"date":"2007-06-20T08:34:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T08:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afrikaansenuus.co.za\/?p=562"},"modified":"2007-06-20T08:34:05","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T08:34:05","slug":"us-to-open-investigation-of-bae-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"U.S. To Open Investigation of BAE Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Department of Justice is almost certain to open an investigation of the scandal-ridden, British-based global defense contractor BAE Systems under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, according to a report in the British-based Guardian Unlimited<\/em> today.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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British Prime Minister Tony Blair, U.S. Vice president Dick Cheney, and former British Ministry of Defense procurement officer Baroness Liz Symons are tied up in the biggest bribery scandal in memory, involving at least $2 billion in payoffs to Saudi Prince Bandar over a 22-year period to secure weapons deals, and billions more in slush funds paid out elsewhere.
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The U.S. criminal investigation, which the Guardian reports U.S. law enforcement sources say is "99% certain," will likely scuttle BAE’s plans for taking over major U.S. arms companies to become the world’s largest defense contractor. Immediately threatened is BAE’s attempted takeover of the American defense firm Armor Holdings, producer of Humvee armor, for $4.1 billion.
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But the deeper implications of the scandal threaten to blow open the secret nexus of oil, international finance, and secret intelligence operations, which has controlled global politics since the death of Franklin Roosevelt.
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The biggest loser in the still unfolding global "Watergate" could be Vice President Dick Cheney, whose close collusion with Prince Bandar has contributed to the slide of the entire Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia region into a state of total ungovernability and spreading civil war.
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The governments of successive British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair; the British Monarchy; and leading elements within the Saudi Royal Family are all highly implicated.
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The reason for such seemingly unrelated developments as the mysterious death of British biological warfare expert David Kelly in July 2003, and the London safehousing of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, a recipient of BAE payoffs from 1997 to 2004, can be expected to surface as this massive scandal unravels.
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Investigations of BAE and the British cover-up of the bribery scandal are also underway in Switzerland, Sweden, and by the Europe-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. An anti-fraud arm of the European Union, Euro-Just, is investigating similar bribery scandals in South Africa, the Czech Republic, Romania, Tanzania and Qatar.
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Expect more explosive developments shortly.<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n

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The U.S. Department of Justice is almost certain to open an investigation of the scandal-ridden, British-based global defense contractor BAE Systems under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, according to a report in the British-based Guardian Unlimited today.   […]    British Prime Minister Tony Blair, U.S. Vice president Dick Cheney, and former British Ministry of … Continue reading “U.S. To Open Investigation of BAE Corruption”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[21098,427,661],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c51-international-news","tag-s19-english","tag-international-news","tag-u-s-to-open-investigation-of-bae-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}