Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Colombia leader may expel foreign oil contractor

Reuters:
BOGOTA, June 20 (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday threatened to expel an unnamed foreign oil services contractor if the government verifies that the firm bowed to demands for extortion payments from an unidentified illegal armed group.

"We have received information that a contractor of an oil company apparently paid extortion money," Santos said. "If we confirm that information ... then we're going to get that company out of the country."

"It is a foreign company," he said of the contractor, which he declined to identify. He also did not name the company the contractor was working for...


Palveluyhtiö siis kysessä. Talismanin epäiltiin maksaneen talvella lunnaita FARCille, ehkä he käyttivät välikättä maksun suorittamiseen? Kyseessä saattaa olla SAE.

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