LONDON (Reuters) – A former manager of Monaco-based oil and gas consultancy Unaoil was on Thursday sentenced to 5 years in jail for bribing an Iraqi official to secure oil contracts after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said.
British-Lebanese Ziad Akle, a 45-year-old former Iraq territory manager, was found guilty by a London jury of conspiring to commit bribery to secure oil contracts between 2005 and 2010 after a four-year, high-profile SFO investigation.
(Reporting by Kirstin Ridley. Editing by Jane Merriman)
