Unaoil execs plead guilty for roles in global bribery scheme
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Jaclyn Jaeger2019-11-01T17:48:00
The former CEO and chief operations officer of Monaco-based Unaoil have pleaded guilty for their roles in a scheme to corruptly facilitate millions of dollars in bribe payments to officials in multiple countries.
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