Welcome back to bribes, Wendler, Steel. I'm Alexandra Rogge, and today I'm in

Calgary, Alberta with Lindsay Mitchell, a former sales executive with Unioil. Before working

for Unioil, he had a varied and illustrious career across the Gulf and North Africa.

He is born and raised in Canada, but spent much of his career overseas.

And Lindsay has agreed to meet with me today to talk about his time with Unile Oil.

And perhaps more importantly, some of the lessons learned and what companies

can take away from that story. Some of you will have heard the Unioil podcast that we did a

couple of weeks ago with Nick McKenzie, and I'll repeat what I said there, which is there

have been no indictments in this case, and at this point, Unile Oil has a posting on

their website saying that the allegations are malicious. So with all of that, I'm going to turn this

over to Lindsay. And why don't you just tell us the story? First of all, how you came to be working

for Unile and then the story that broke in the age in First of all, how you came to be working for Unile, and then the story that

broke in the age in March of last year about the email tranche that Nick McKenzie and Richard

Baker came across and the investigation that followed. To get started, I've been in the old industry

32 years and held positions from field level at the

executive level, president CEO of a public company here in Calgary. And then I went to work for

investors out of Jordan, built a company in Libya for them and sold that for them for a lot of money,

nine times the investment. And a month after that company was sold, I sold myself out of a job more or less.

So a month later, I had a phone call from Atta Asanani.

Atta Asani is the father. the... The dad, yeah. Right.

Yeah. And wanting me... wanting to know if I would come work for them. And so he flew

my wife and I to Monte Carlo and we spent a weekend there with the Asanis. And we agreed

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