BBC

September 1, 2003
Listen online: Richard D. North, Media Fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs, explores dishonesty, bribery, sleaze, fraud and graft around the world in Corruption, a four-part documentary which began on Monday, August 18, aired by the British Broadcasting Corporation. On Monday, Sept. 1, the series will look at the groundbreaking corruption trial underway in Lesotho, one of the smallest and poorest countries in Africa. The CEO of a dam project, the biggest construction project in Africa, was found to have taken $2 million in bribes, which he’d stashed in a string of secret Swiss bank accounts. He’s currently serving a 15-year sentence. But who paid him? A Canadian engineering multinational has been convicted, so too has a German company (it plans to appeal), a representative of an Italian-led consortium has decided to plead guilty, and a French company is waiting for its day in court to be set. Taking on the multinationals in this way has already cost Lesotho millions of dollars.
Broadcast Times: BST:
Monday, September 1, 0905, 1405, 1905
Monday, September 8, 0905, 1405, 1905
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