headquarters la rousse monaco key people ahsani family website www.unaoil.com unaoil is a monaco based company run by the ahsani family founded in 1991 . 1 according to unaoil it provides industrial solutions to the energy sector in the middle east central asia and africa . 2 1 unaoil is incorporated in the british virgin islands a tax haven with an opaque banking system . 3 allegations of bribery edit in 2010 unaoil entered into an agreement with leighton holdings with the aim of securing a 500 million oil pipeline contract in iraq . in 2011 leighton holdings referred the deal to the police as corruption . 3 in 2014 a uk high court judge dismissed the corruption claims . 4 in march 2016 unaoil was again accused of facilitating corruption and bribery in the oil industry . 5 a leaked cache of emails dating from 2001 to 2012 sent within unaoil were the subject of a series of investigative articles published by fairfax media in the australian newspaper the age and the huffington post in march 2016 . the age wrote that how they make their money is simple . oil rich countries often suffer poor governance and high levels of corruption . unaoil s business plan is to play on the fears of large western companies that they can not win contracts without its help . its operatives then bribe officials in oil producing nations to help these clients win government funded projects . the corrupt officials might rig a tender committee . or leak inside information . or ensure a contract is awarded without a competitive tender . 5 in iraq unaoil paid multi million dollar lump sums to senior politicians . other oil producing countries that unaoil have dealings in include iran libya syria yemen kuwait and the uae . 5 in march 2016 the sydney morning herald published a letter from a legal representative of unaoil in which the allegations of corruption and bribery are denied . 6 on 31 march the mon gasque authorities announced that they had raided the offices of unaoil and the homes of some of its executives following an urgent request for assistance from the uk s serious fraud office . the statement said these searches and interviews were carried out in the presence of british officials as part of a vast international corruption scandal implicating numerous foreign oil industry firms . the information collected is going to be examined by the british authorities as part of their investigation . 7 as of the same day unaoil found itself under a joint investigation by the u.s. department of justice fbi the u.k. national crime agency and australian federal police . 8 references edit a b heritage . unaoil.com . retrieved 2016 03 30 . chairman s message . unaoil.com . retrieved 2016 03 31 . a b mckenzie nick ; baker richard 2013 11 18 . leighton holdings linked to corrupt fees for iraq pipeline contracts . the australian . retrieved 2016 04 02 . subscription required kitney damon 2015 03 10 . leighton corruption evidence at best tenuous uk judge says . the australian . retrieved 2016 04 01 . subscription required a b c mckenzie nick ; baker richard ; bachelard michael ; quinlan daniel 2016 03 30 . the bribe factory part 1 . the age . retrieved 2016 03 30 . bachelard michael 2016 03 31 . how bribe factory unaoil tried to stop us telling their secrets . the sydney morning herald . retrieved 2016 03 31 . rawlinson kevin 2016 04 01 . authorities in monaco raid oil firm hq in corruption investigation . the guardian . retrieved 2016 04 02 . mckenzie nick ; baker richard ; bachelard michael ; quinlan daniel 2016 03 31 . fbi and justice department probing huge international bribery scandal . huffington post . retrieved 2016 04 03 . external links edit official website this european corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this monaco related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title unaoil & oldid 713409823 categories oil companiescorruptionorganisations based in monacoeuropean company stubsmonaco stubshidden categories pages containing links to subscription only contentofficial website different in wikidata and wikipediaall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 april 2016 at 21 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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