Princely price of the ‘slush fund’ girls
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1596756.ece
See today's
Sunday Times for yet more allegations concerning BWoS and the Saudis.......
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1596693.ece
Far from 'Done and dusted', Jindabyne, methinks, as this brief extract would seem to indicate:
'Last autumn, after the Saudis threatened Downing Street that they would halt the contract and suspend diplomatic and intelligence ties unless it was stopped, Tony Blair intervened to end Britain’s biggest-ever bribery inquiry. Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, told parliament the decision was made “in the national interest”.
Robert Wardle, the director of the SFO, said he had decided that the 2˝ year probe could no longer be justified. He had been told that if intelligence links with the Saudis broke down, Al-Qaeda would cause “death on the streets”.
But opposition MPs and watchdogs were suspicious. Many in Whitehall, and at the SFO, suspected Blair, Goldsmith and others had simply caved in to Saudi blackmail.
“Goldsmith’s a bastard,” said a friend of Wardle. “This business showed he’s the most political attorney-general in decades.”
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the industrial countries grouping that monitors corruption in trade, smelt a rat. Under a treaty, inquiries cannot be stopped for economic or political reasons.
The OECD is planning to send a team to Britain to interview Goldsmith and officials about the decision'