After years of political lobbying at the highest levels, BAe Systems and the US and UK authorities have dropped their long-running investigations into bribery and corruption related to arms contracts: here.
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and The Corner House have requested a judicial review of a recent plea bargain that would let arms manufacturer BAE Systems off the hook for alleged bribery in several European and African countries: here.
Arms giant BAE Systems has pleaded poverty, claiming that its profits had been torpedoed by the loss of a key US contract and the cost of a recent plea bargain to settle corruption charges: here.
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