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  'We look like fools': UK-US ties threatened by corruption case row

  

  theguardian.com

  Exchanges show how American prosecutors stymied British efforts to extradite key suspectBritish anti-corruption investigators accused their US counterparts of deceiving them during a row over a criminal inquiry that threatened cooperation between the countries and prompted the UK to complain that “we look like fools”.The extraordinary dispute is laid bare in a series of confidential exchanges, seen by the Guardian, between senior levels of the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO), which prosecutes large-scale bribery and corruption, and the US Department of Justice. Continue reading...

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  Airbus to pay record £3bn in fines for 'endemic' corruption

  

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  Petrofac accused of keeping fake accounts to disguise bribes

  

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  UK-based multinational energy firm is under investigation by Serious Fraud OfficeA multinational energy firm accused by...

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