It was clear at the time, and we said so, that this decision was a blatant attempt to appease an ally who scandalously held up anti-terrorism cooperation so that their involvement in corruption would not see the light of day.
Nevertheless, this is not just a problem about the company. The ally is riddled with this sort of behaviour and noone wants to call them to account.
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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Ministers on Thursday night vowed to drive through unprecedented statutory powers to shut down investigations on national security grounds, just hours after the High Court said the government had broken the law by scrapping a probe into arms deals between BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia.
Two top judges delivered a fierce rebuke to the government for “failing to recognise the rule of law” and allowing a foreign nation to “pervert the course of justice” in a case that triggered global condemnation.
“So bleak a picture of the impotence of the law invites at least dismay, if not outrage,” said Lord Justice Moses in the High Court in London, as he ruled that the Serious Fraud Office had illegally allowed threats by Saudi officials to derail the bribery probe, which was scrapped in December 2006.
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