Oil chief held in second corruption investigation

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Thu Mar-22-07 04:08 PM
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Oil chief held in second corruption investigation

Source: Times Online

March 22, 2007

Oil chief held in second corruption investigationCharles Bremner in Paris
The head of the French oil giant Total SA was detained by police yesterday over suspicions that the company paid millions of dollars in bribes for its operations in an Iranian offshore gas field.

Christophe de Margerie, 55, and two directors, were summoned on the orders of Philippe Courroye, a judge who last year placed him under criminal investigation in a case involving Iraq. That concerned the company’s suspected payment of bribes to aquire supplies in the UN Oil-for-Food programme in 1999-2003.

Total, France’s biggest public company, said that it was “completely behind its executives” and insisted that the Iranian agreements were legal...cont'd

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1550791.ece

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Thu Mar-22-07 04:13 PM
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1. will they ever get Cheney?

his company did business with Iran :argh:

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