Peter Klein’s Bribe, Inc.

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On today’s show, I’ll spend the hour with filmmaker and three time Emmy winner Peter Klein discussing his latest documentary entitled, “Bribe, Inc.” which opens on May 3 at the Elmwood Rialto Cinemas in Berkeley.

More About Bribe, Inc.:

In the shadows of the global oil industry, a company with a jet-set lifestyle and greasy palms operates with total impunity – until a whistleblower named “Figaro” reached out to Australian journalist Nick MacKenzie with enough insider intel to take them down.

Bribe, Inc. takes us on a documentary journey in which a team of award-winning reporters investigate the Ahsani family, who run a company called Unaoil from the tiny principality of Monaco.

Unaoil reached across the globe to pay multi-million dollar bribes in oil rich states. The beneficiaries of these ill-gotten gains include some of the biggest companies in Europe, North America and Australia. The files that Nick obtained from “Figaro” turn out to be the biggest exposé of bribery and corruption in modern history. The information they uncovered was enough to launch investigations across a dozen countries, and put the Ahsanis in the crosshairs of some of the most powerful law enforcement agencies in the world, including the American FBI and the British Serious Fraud Office.

Nick and “Figaro” follow the money and chase down the criminals – a manhunt spanning the globe from Iraq to Monaco, Rome, London, Australia, and the US. As the criminals at the centre of this case begin facing the courtroom, the question remains – will there ever be justice for the world’s biggest bribery scheme?

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