U.K.’s Hague Denies BP Involvement in Lockerbie Bomber Release

U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague has written to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying there’s no evidence BP Plc was involved in last year’s decision to release Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Al-Megrahi.

“There is no evidence that corroborates in any way the allegations of BP involvement in the Scottish Executive’s decision to release Megrahi on compassionate grounds in 2009,” Hague wrote yesterday in a letter released by the U.K. Foreign Office. “Nor any suggestion that the Scottish Executive decided to release Megrahi in order to facilitate oil deals for BP.”