The website for the PBS television program Frontline offers a host of valuable supplemental materials for their investigative video, Black Money, including a video of the full program itself. What is black money? It's a business tactic "where multinational companies...have routinely made secret payments -- often referred to as "black money" -- to win billions in business." In a nutshell, it's bribery. Check out the "Introduction" link near the top of the page to read about the basis for the video, which was a Saudi prince who bribed a British company to make fighter jets for Saudi Arabia. In the "Interviews" link, below the "Introduction" link, there are four interviews available with people who represent the various parties involved, including a U.S. prosecutor, the British journalist who broke the story, and a former FBI director who now represents the accused, Saudi Prince Bandar. In the "Documents" link there are copies of Tony Blair's memo to end the investigation of the bribery, suspicious Saudi money transfers, and a statement from BAE, the British company accused of taking bribes. Visitors who are interested in more information on bribery, should check out the Additional Resources and Government/International Resources sections of the "Documents" link as it provides such items as a map of corruption cases throughout the world, the World Bank hotline (BRIBEline) which allows people to anonymously report bribe requests, and the full text of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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