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Australian police have arrested Russell Waugh, former Leighton Offshore Pty Ltd managing director, for bribing Iraqi officials in the amount of $ 78 million to secure lucrative Iraqi oil contracts.<\/p>\n

Police claim his company paid bribes through contractors including Unaoil – a Monaco-based firm which last year had two former senior executives plead guilty to being part of a scheme to bribe foreign government officials in several countries including Azerbaijan, Syria and Iraq. Agence France-Presse<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

– The offshore company was based in Singapore but there was a range of complex subsidiary companies that this money flowed through to disguise some of the payments into Iraq, – deputy commissioner Ian McCartney said.<\/p>\n

Investigators believe the payments were used to secure contracts for the construction of onshore and offshore oil pipelines worth approximately $ 1.5 billion.<\/p>\n

– The key targets of the bribery scheme were Iraqi Ministry of Oil officials and government officials within the South Oil Company of Iraq, – Australian Federal Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The investigation began following reports of alleged improper payments made by Singapore-registered company Leighton Offshore Pty Ltd regarding the contracts with Iraq Crude Oil Export in 2010 and 2011.<\/p>\n

Police said the nine-year investigation, which involved US and British authorities, was a \u00abpainstaking process\u00bb of putting together a worldwide jigsaw of \u00aballeged corruption\u00bb.<\/p>\n

The investigation involved the seizing of more than two million documents, with evidence gathered from 10 countries.<\/p>\n

Police also announced they had issued two further arrest warrants for men living abroad in Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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