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El `de BAE pagó a príncipe Saudi £1bn en secreto'
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Por Sadie Gray
La independiente
Británicos arman a compañía que los sistemas de BAE pagaron secretamente a príncipe Saudi más que £1bn durante más de 10 años, una investigación ha revelado.
El sultán del compartimiento de príncipe Bandar recibió el dinero con el conocimiento completo del ministerio de la defensa, según el programa del Panorama del BBC. BAE envió hasta £120m al año a dos cuentas de la embajada del Saudi que el BBC dice era un “conducto” a príncipe Bandar. The prince, who was the Saudi ambassador to the US for 20 years, was the architect of the Al Yamamah deal to sell military aircraft to Saudi Arabia. The deal, worth £43bn, was signed in 1985.
David Caruso, an investigator who worked for the American bank which held the accounts, told the BBC: “There wasn’t a distinction between the accounts of the embassy, or official government accounts as we would call them, and the accounts of the royal family.”
Panorama says the payments were listed on the arms deal contract as “support services,” and were authorised every quarter by the MoD. The Serious Fraud Office discovered the payments during an investigation into the Al Yamamah deal which was halted last year after a review by the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith. He said it was in Britain’s national interest to drop the investigation.
Prince Bandar and the MoD declined to comment on the matter, and BAE said that the company acted lawfully at all times.
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