Argentina threatens UK oil firm CEO with jail over Falklands drilling
by Daniel Boffey in Hamburg from World news | The Guardian on (#79PTX)
Exclusive: Legal notice comes as Buenos Aires ramps up rhetoric over UK territory and seeks to halt Sea Lion project
The Argentinian government threatened a British businessman involved in an offshore Falkland Islands oil project with jail, the Guardian can reveal.
Sam Moody, the chief executive of Rockhopper Exploration, and his company's chief financial officer received the correspondence this autumn as Buenos Aires began ramping up its rhetoric over the British overseas territory.
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