LONDON – A 3rd man convicted in Britain over how oil contracts had been secured in post-occupation Iraq has had his conviction overturned by a London court docket, additional unravelling a high-profile bribery case prosecuted by the UK Severe Fraud Workplace (SFO).
The SFO didn't contest the enchantment by Stephen Whiteley, 66, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor stated on Thursday. Two former co-defendants have already had their convictions overturned after senior judges dominated their trials had been unfair due to disclosure failings.
The SFO was counseled for its “reasonable strategy” to the enchantment, the spokeswoman added, because the company’s failings within the high-profile Unaoil bribery case had been laid out once more in a government-ordered evaluation.
Whiteley, sentenced to 3 years in jail in 2020, was convicted after a four-year investigation into how Unaoil, a consultancy as soon as run by the outstanding Ahsani household, helped main Western corporations win power tasks within the Center East, Central Asia and Africa over twenty years.
London’s Courtroom of Attraction has already overturned the convictions of Whiteley’s co-defendant Ziad Akle, a one-time Unaoil government, and that of Paul Bond, a former supervisor at Dutch power providers agency SBM Offshore.
A fourth defendant within the case pleaded responsible in 2019.
“Our investigation into Unaoil uncovered the fee of $17 million in bribes that had been paid to win contracts price $1.7 billion in Iraq and we’re proud to have uncovered this critical wrongdoing,” an SFO consultant stated.
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