Australian journalist Nick McKenzie shows Alexandra Wrage, founder of TRACE International, a wall of people and institutions that he scrutinized to learn about practices in the oil industry. A new documentary, Bribe., Inc., explores the alleged wrongdoing that the investigation uncovered.Peter W. Klein is former director of the University of British Columbia’s School of Journalism, Writing & Media.
Interestingly, even Trump-appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who voted in favour of expanded presidential immunity, warned that the majority opinion went too far when it came to introducing evidence to the court, and specifically referenced corruption. “I’m a politician,” Mr. Biden said. “I’m in the business of getting elected, so I assume you’d condone my stuffing in the ballot box because my competitor is stuffing the ballot?”“That’s because in the first place, it’s against the laws of the United States of America,” Mr. Haughton said.U.S. President Joe Biden helped lay the foundation for anti-bribery laws that he would strengthen further from the White House.Mr.
Ms. Wrage, TRACE International’s president, was invited on the air at the time to refute Mr. Trump’s critique of the law, and explained that American companies “never benefit from lawlessness,” and that the stability and predictability of working with law-abiding companies is actually a huge competitive advantage.Ms. Wrage meets anti-corruption protesters in Iraq, where the fall of Saddam Hussein in the 2000s has so far done little to make the country more transparent and free of bribery.
We spent several years working with Mr. McKenzie and “Figaro,” whose identity remains hidden for fear of retaliation. Together we delved into the complexities of this case, poring over hundreds of thousands of documents that eventually landed with law enforcement. England’s Serious Fraud Office took the law enforcement lead, and built a 50-person task force to not only prosecute the ones who owned and ran Unaoil, but to reveal the extent of corruption within the broader industry.