Arms and oil bosses refuse to attend corporate responsibility inquiry

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Arms and oil bosses refuse to attend corporate responsibility inquiry

Guardian – The bosses of some of Britain’s biggest arms and oil companies have refused to attend a parliamentary inquiry into the use of hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to help dictators build arsenals and facilitate environmental and human rights abuses. The businessmen, including Ian King, chief executive of BAE Systems, had been invited to an all-party investigation into the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD)’s underwriting of loans, including £35m to Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe to buy five Hawk fighter jets. Read Article

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