BP lobbied Jack Straw before he changed mind over Lockerbie bomber
Activer le mode zenTom Baldwin and Philip Webster
"Jack Straw was personally lobbied by BP over Britain's prisoner transfer agreement with Libya just before he abandoned efforts to exclude the Lockerbie bomber from the deal.
"The Times has learnt that the Justice Secretary took two telephone calls from Sir Mark Allen, a former M16 agent, who was by then working for BP as a consultant, on October 15 and November 9, 2007.
"Having signed a $900 million oil exploration deal with Libya earlier that year, BP feared that its commercial interests could be damaged if Britain delayed the prisoner transfer agreement (PTA) through which the Gaddafi regime hoped to secure the return home of Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi."
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"BP lobbied Jack Straw before he changed mind over Lockerbie bomber", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), avril 2009. Consulté le 24/04/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/bp-lobbied-jack-straw-before-he-changed-mind-over-lockerbie-bomber