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International bribery. It’s a trillion dollars a year, with corporations on one side, heads of state on the other.
And it thrives in an invisible world.



As the global financial downturn continues and pressure for profits increases on corporations across the world, a small
group of lawyers in the U.S. Justice Department is pursuing an aggressive crackdown against an international business
tactic -- bribery -- which the World Bank says amounts to as much as a trillion dollars a year in payments.



"Over the past two years, the U.S. government has collected almost a billion and a half dollars in fines in foreign
bribery cases," says Mark Mendelsohn, the Department of Justice prosecutor in charge of more than 100 ongoing
cases, one of which culminated in a record seven-year prison term for the former CEO of a subsidiary of the Halliburton
Corp., and another which ended in a record $800 million fine against the German giant Siemens. "There's a whole
world of conduct that rarely sees the light of day."



In Black Money, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman investigates this shadowy side of international business,
shedding light on multinational companies that have routinely made secret payments -- often referred to as "black
money" -- to win billions in business.



"The thing about black money is you can claim it's being used for all kinds of things," the British reporter
David Leigh tells Bergman. "You get pots of black money that nobody sees, nobody has to account for, ... you can do
anything you like with. Mostly what happens with black money is people steal it because they can."



Leigh knows. In his groundbreaking reporting for The Guardian newspaper, he helped uncover one of the biggest and most
complicated cases currently under investigation -- a story involving a British aerospace giant, the Saudi royal family,
and an $80 billion international arms deal known as Al Yamamah, or "The Dove" in Arabic. "If there was
one person who was the main man behind this arms deal, it turned out it was the U.S. ambassador, Prince Bandar bin
Sultan," says Leigh.



It all started back in 1985, when the charismatic Prince Bandar was put in charge of acquiring new fighter jets for the
Saudi Arabian air force. The Israeli lobby in Congress reportedly stood in the way of the United States making a deal
with the Saudis, so President Ronald Reagan sent Bandar to the British. The prince approached a willing Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher, and they sealed the massive deal between the United Kingdom, BAE Systems (formerly British Aerospace)
and the Royal Saudi Air Force.



Rumors swirled that billions in bribes had changed hands to secure the deal, but British officials denied wrongdoing.
"Of course there is suspicion, and of course people are entitled to be suspicious," says Lord Timothy Bell,
who was involved in the deal from the beginning on behalf of the Thatcher government. "But as far as I'm concerned,
if the British government ... and the Saudi government reached a sovereign agreement over an arms contract that resulted
in a tremendous number of jobs in Britain, a great deal of wealth creation in Britain, ... and enabled Saudi Arabians to
defend themselves, ... I think that's a jolly good contract."



But then, as a growing, international anti-bribery movement -- led by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development -- spread, Britain signed onto a binding treaty. Soon after, a whistleblower came forward with documents and
firsthand knowledge of alleged corrupt payments. Peter Gardiner, a high-end travel agent in London, laid bare the
details of how he provided luxury services for Saudi Prince Turki and his family -- charter airplanes for massive
shopping sprees, the purchase of expensive cars and extravagant honeymoon trips -- all paid for by BAE Systems.
"It's the lifestyle that many people would like to have if they could afford it," says Gardiner. "It's a
little bit beyond that of a film star, because you've got the diplomatic passport with it."



Gardiner took his allegations first to The Guardian's Leigh, and then to the British agency that investigates
white-collar crime, the Serious Fraud Office, which began an investigation. That probe would turn up evidence of huge
payments from the Al Yamamah funds to bank accounts controlled by Prince Bandar in Washington, D.C.



As the investigation grew, the Blair government was pressured by the Saudis and by Prince Bandar himself, who went to 10
Downing Street and threatened to end cooperation with the British in the fight against terror if the investigations into
Al Yamamah continued. "The expression was, 'You know, there's going to be a lot of people dead on the
streets,'" a senior British fraud prosecutor tells Bergman of the Saudi threats that ultimately led to the shutting
down of the British BAE investigation. "If we go forward with an investigation into these accounts in Switzerland,
we may find we're not going to be able to do what we can do to stop terrorism."



There was widespread frustration among corruption fighters about the British capitulation, and fears that the fledgling
international anti-bribery movement would be undermined. Soon thereafter, the U.S. Department of Justice began its own
investigation into BAE's worldwide network of suspicious payments. The case is now being watched closely by countries
around the world interested in seeing whether the United States is willing, in a depressed economy, to press forward
with an investigation and possible legal case against a company like BAE Systems, whose major client is the Pentagon,
and which currently employs some 40,000 American workers. For its part, BAE says that it is cooperating with the
investigations.



Black Money includes exclusive interviews with current and former prosecutors involved in the cases against BAE Systems,
as well as with Prince Bandar's legal representative on this matter, former FBI Director Louis Freeh.



Parallel to the documentary, FRONTLINE and its international newsmagazine FRONTLINE/World have launched The Business of
Bribes, an unfolding online investigation. The site offers breaking news stories, as well as in-depth interviews with
middlemen, prosecutors, whistleblowers and former presidents, detailing the stories behind some of the largest bribery
investigations in corporate history.

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