Tom Martin
Prosecutor
“This is a titanic scheme that had been perpetrated, and the tendrils that went into that and went out to other places… We’re talking about 36 multinational companies who pay bribes to Unaoil all at multimillion-dollar levels across most of the world, which implicated very senior businessmen, owners of companies, government officials.”
— TOM MARTIN
About
Tom Martin, one of the world’s fiercest anti-corruption investigators, saw his lauded career derailed by the Ahsanis and the Unaoil case. The senior case controller for Britain’s Serious Fraud Office was the lead investigator into Unaoil’s multinational bribery network. His dogged pursuit of Unaoil should have been a professional capstone. Instead, the Ahsanis, with the help of the FBI, outmaneuvered the SFO’s leaders — and got Tom dismissed, on a trumped-up claim of misconduct.
Exonerated But Damage Done
An employment tribunal later cleared Martin and found that the SFO dismissed him without proper investigation into the complaints by US prosecutors. Yet the damage was irreversible. This elite corruption cop became the fall guy for the SFO’s colossal botch of the Unaoil prosecutions.
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