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Vol 49 No 24
28th November 2008

Identifying the problems

France’s Total and Spain’s Repsol YPF oil companies are under pressure to divulge who received more than US$6 million in consultant fees paid to suspected politically connected intermediaries in Libya. The fees are mentioned in a StatoilHydro report (AC V...

Vol 49 No 23
14th November 2008

Anonymous commerce

Suspicion hangs over Norway's oil major Statoil Hydro after an internal audit published last month flagged as suspicious a joint venture with a mystery Angolan company, signed in September 2006. Angola's state oil company Sonangol operates offshore Block ...

Vol 48 No 14
6th July 2007

Bank robbery

Norwegian Development Minister Erik Solheim is determined to get the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to take more seriously the damage which corrupt pricing systems and tax havens do to developing economies, especially African ones. Oslo is pre...

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