Thanks to a recent court case, we now know that the Ministry of Defence, over the space of decades, probably had knowledge of – and possible complicity in – payments that could have benefited Saudi princes and officials.
Documents released during the case, which concluded this week with two individuals being cleared of wrongdoing in connection with the payments, suggest that MoD civil servants arranged and signed off these payments, made as part of a long-running defence deal between Britain and the Saudi Arabian national guard, possibly until 2017.
