SFO Charges Airbus Unit, Three Individuals in Saudi Probe
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The U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office charged a unit of Airbus SE and three individuals as part of its investigation into allegations of corruption in Saudi Arabia.
GPT Special Project Management Ltd., former Managing Director Jeffrey Cook, and John Mason, the financial officer and part-owner of subcontractors to GPT, were charged with corruption. Cook has also been charged with misconduct in public office over commissions he was paid for contracts he placed with ME Consultants Ltd. while he was working for the U.K.’s Ministry of Defence between 2004 and 2008. Terence Dorothy has been charged with aiding and abetting that offense.