23 September 2003 An early September indictment unsealed in a New York federal court alleges that Swiss lawyer Hans Bodmer “paid bribes and authorized the payment of bribes” to four unnamed “senior officials” in Azerbaijan in a scheme to influence the privatization of the state oil company, SOCAR. Western media, including the Financial Times, have […]

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