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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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David Pegg and Rob Evans

MoD signed £8m deal with firm later alleged to be conduit for secret payments to Saudi prince

Composite of Hammond and Miteb
Saudi prince Miteb bin Abdullah (right) and Philip Hammond, defence secretary at time MoD was considering whether to make payments to ABTSS. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images/Reuters/EPA

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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