MoD signed £8m deal with firm later alleged to be conduit for secret payments to Saudi prince
by David Pegg and Rob Evans from World news | The Guardian on (#6K5FZ)
Project Arrow contract signed amid scramble to keep on track 1.6bn defence deal and ran until at least 2017
The UK Ministry of Defence paid millions of pounds to a company later alleged to have been a conduit for secret payments to high-ranking Saudi Arabian officials including a member of the royal family.
The MoD payments, worth 8m, were made under a contract codenamed Project Arrow that ran until at least 2017, according to documents that surfaced in a criminal trial.
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