Corruption is a crime

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Corruption is a crime

By Mark Pack | Fri 2nd March 2007 - 4:00 pm

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The story of how Labour axed criminal investigations into bribery over the UK’s big arms deal with Saudi Arabia has been a favourite of various Lib Dem blogs (including this one), particularly given the rather curious continued silence from the Tories on the issue. (Tough on crime? Err, only sometimes, when it suits, if it’s not too much bother and when we’ve finished changing our clothes.)

The party’s now launched a new online petition and campaign website on the subject: www.corruptionisacrime.com

It’s one of a series of initiatives over the next few weeks backing up the party’s major crime campaign, launched a few weeks ago: www.wecancutcrime.com

Read more by Mark Pack or more about saudi arabia.
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One Comment

ColinW 2nd Mar '07 - 4:18pm

I wonder if the Tory silence on the Saudi corruption inquiry would be because of the cash they got from Mrs Wafic, wife of the arms dealer who set the Saudi deal up?

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