Huffington Post and the Age, in Australia, are publishing a story on corruption in the oil industry.
The story comes from a large leak of documents they have obtained.
A massive leak of confidential documents has for the first time exposed the true extent of corruption within the oil industry, implicating dozens of leading companies, bureaucrats and politicians in a sophisticated global web of bribery and graft.
After a six-month investigation across two continents, Fairfax Media and The Huffington Post can reveal that billions of dollars of government contracts were awarded as the direct result of bribes paid on behalf of firms including British icon Rolls-Royce, US giant Halliburton, Australia’s Leighton Holdings and Korean heavyweights Samsung and Hyundai.
The investigation centres on a Monaco company called Unaoil, run by the jet-setting Ahsani clan.
The Bribe Factory, the Age
Unaoil is acting as a middleman, bribing officials in oil-producing nations to help client companies win projects. Discussion of bribery, in the leaked documents, is often very blunt.
An expose showing corruption in the oil industry, that bribes are paid for contracts, is probably not going to shock anyone.
But from a quick reading of their coverage so far, and the detail they have, this looks to me like a major news story.