The Ministry of Defence’s multimillion pound Saudi defence deal
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:05.0 | Today, what the documents released in a serious fraud office court case, |
| 0:12.0 | revealed about payments from the Ministry of Defence to Saudi Arabia. Today in Focus is supported by Better Help. |
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| 1:43.0 | David Peg is an investigation's correspondent for the Guardian, and for the last few months, he's been engrossed in a story that goes back more than a decade. |
| 1:48.1 | So this story really begins in December 2010 when a whistle buyer is getting on a very hastily arranged flight out of |
| 1:56.7 | the capital of Saudi Arabia to come back to the UK as quickly as possible. He had kind of pushed through Saudi customs with the help of some friends in the Ministry of |
| 2:09.4 | Defence gets on a plane and breathes a very big sigh of relief. |
| 2:15.0 | That is the culmination of what for him has been six months of |
| 2:20.0 | investigating his own company and discovering very, very large unexplained payments to offshore |
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