Sunday, April 01, 2007

BAE shows the world what it’s about: to hell with the cost, to hell with the principles, make that deal!

A SECRET slush fund set up by BAE Systems, Britain’s biggest defence contractor, was used to pay tens of thousands of pounds to two British actresses while they befriended a senior Saudi prince and his entourage.

Confidential documents seen by The Sunday Times reveal that money from the £60m fund went on the mortgages and rent, credit card bills and council tax of Anouska Bolton-Lee and Karajan Mallinder. It even paid for language lessons. BAE hired actresses for Saudis (£60m slush fund to woo prince)

Mark Alexander

3 comments:

Mark said...

We have our own foolish Prince.

Yes, but so far as I know, no Saudi company reciprocates and hires the charms of beautiful women for him.

Unknown said...

Yes, but so far as I know, no Saudi company reciprocates and hires the charms of beautiful women for him. - Mark

Yes, but where did the bit about "beautiful" come in?

Mark said...

JAR: It must have been a Freudian slip! :-)