US obtains Swiss records and flies in British witness in BAE investigation

Source URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/baefiles/story/0,,2217144,00.html
Posted at: http://www.air-attack/com/news/news_article/2852

US corruption investigators have gone behind the back of Downing Street to fly a British witness to Washington to testify about Saudi arms deals with the UK arms firm BAE Systems, the Guardian can disclose. In a hitherto secret move, Swiss federal prosecutors have also agreed to hand over to Washington financial records linked to the Saudi royal family.

The US is seeking - but has so far been refused - more than a million pages of documents seized from BAE, its bankers, Lloyds TSB, and the Ministry of Defence during an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.

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