Foreign Office official floated idea of giving honour to fixer for Saudi royals Salah Fustok alleged by UK prosecutors to have been a middleman for nearly £10m in payments to Saudi prince The Guardian - UK · Mar 12, 2024
US defence contractor paid commissions to Saudi firm later alleged to be conduit for bribes Harris had longstanding relationship with ABTSS, later alleged by British prosecutors to have handled or received illegal payments The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2024
Friday briefing: The Saudi defence deal revealed in a UK trial In today’s newsletter: A new investigation into the murky relationship between the UK Ministry of Defence, middle men, and the Saudi royal family The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2024
Who is Prince Miteb? Saudi royal said to have pocketed MoD money Saudi prince once tipped as contender for king is believed to have taken a large cut from UK defence contracts The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2024
‘Deniable fiddle’: the MoD, Saudi Arabia and a scandal half a century in the making Revelations about payments by Ministry of Defence are culmination of decades of British deal-making with Saudis The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2024
MoD signed £8m deal with firm later alleged to be conduit for secret payments to Saudi prince Project Arrow contract signed amid scramble to keep on track £1.6bn defence deal and ran until at least 2017 The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2024
Two men acquitted of bribing Saudis in huge British defence deal Jury acquits Jeffrey Cook and John Mason after lawyers argue payments were authorised by UK and Saudi governments The Guardian - UK · Mar 6, 2024
Bosses dismissed my concerns, UK arms firm executive tells corruption trial Mike Paterson gives evidence in trial of two men accused of funnelling corrupt payments to senior Saudis The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2023
UK ministers approved £60m payments to Saudi royals to maintain arms deal, court told Payments allegedly facilitated by senior government and military figures to secure arms contracts for British firms The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2023
Jury discharged in trial of UK middlemen accused of Saudi bribes Jeffrey Cook, 65, and John Mason, 79, deny making corrupt payments to senior Saudis in exchange for contracts The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2022
UK middlemen paid £9.7m in bribes to Saudis for contracts, court told Jeffrey Cook and John Mason accused of making corrupt payments between 2007 and 2012 to secure deals with Airbus subsidiary The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2022