A British-Iranian consultant-turned-fixer for bribes paid out by large multinational oil and gas companies has been sentenced to five years in prison in the United States. It’s estimated that his work on bribes has tainted billions of dollars in deals across the Middle East and Africa. The World’s Marco Werman interviews James Koukios, a former global corruption prosecutor for the US Department of Justice.
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