Former Top Executives at Oil and Gas Consultancy Unaoil Plead Guilty to Bribery

Former Top Executives at Oil and Gas Consultancy Unaoil Plead Guilty to Bribery
An oil well in the Permian Basin in Garden City, Tex., on Feb. 5, 2015. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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Three former top executives of the Monaco-based Unaoil Group, an oil and gas consultancy, have pleaded guilty to foreign bribery charges.

Brothers Cyrus Ahsani, 51, Unaoil’s former chief executive, and its former chief operations officer Saman, 46, both admitted to being part of a 17-year scheme to pay millions of dollars in bribes to officials in nine countries, according to court papers unsealed this week in a federal court in Houston.

Isabel van Brugen
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Isabel van Brugen is an award-winning journalist. She holds a master's in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.
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