Across the Atlantic, stories continue to churn around the U.K. defense giant BAE Systems’ alleged payment of $2 billion in kickbacks over 20 years to Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi Ambassador to the United States, in a massive U.K.-Saudi arms deal in the 1980s. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s panel on bribery is scheduled today to inquire why the British government abruptly ended its Serious Fraud Office inquiry into BAE last year. And if that doesn’t provide enough grist for the story mill, later this month — and probably this week — U.K. Attorney General Lord Goldsmith will try to explain to parliament his role in the BAE scandal.
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