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In the case of Azerbaijan, my understanding is that western European companies have just blanket bribed more or less every official they interact with up and do
by jacobolus 5y ago
In the case of Azerbaijan, my understanding is that western European companies have just blanket bribed more or less every official they interact with up and down the Azeri government for the past few decades, to help them set up contracts that are grossly unfair to the Azeri public. Oil money that does go to Azerbaijan gets embezzled away, with those companies’ knowledge and implicit support.
I haven’t heard of anyone from e.g. BP getting punished for this, though I believe the British government asked it to investigate itself a few times.
- cblconfederate 5y agoAnd vice-versa. Azerbaijan is known to bribe politicians in european and EU organizations, aka the "Azerbaijani laundromat" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijani_laundromat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijani_laundromat https://www.dw.com/en/how-german-politicians-have-aided-the-aliyev-regime/av-59036114 https://www.dw.com/en/how-german-politicians-have-aided-the-...