Nick Shaxson ■ Cayman implicated in fishy Saudi deal

Cayman implicated in fishy Saudi deal

Nick Shaxson

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5 May 2015

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From the Financial Times:

“Mr Foxley says he discovered gifts to Saudi military officials and illicit payments routed through the Cayman Islands.”

For background, the article begins:

“The UK government is fighting to keep secret details of how it handled allegedly corrupt transactions related to a contract to equip Saudi Arabia’s national guard.”

Richard Brooks, an investigator for Private Eye magazine who has for years played a prominent role in exposing tax-related shenanigans in the UK, is bringing the case in a tribunal in London, where the UK Ministry of Defence’s has denied parts of a freedom of information request by Brooks, and Brooks is alleging a cover-up. Ian Foxley, a retired British army officer, was forced to flee Saudi after he became a whistleblower.

Finally, from the Twittersphere:

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The author

Nick Shaxson

Nicholas Shaxson is a journalist and writer on the staff of Tax Justice Network. He is author of the book Poisoned Wells about the oil industry in Africa, published in 2007, and the more recent Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the Men who Stole the World, published by Random House in January 2011. He lives in Berlin.

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