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Financial inquiries
This page has a database of finance inquiries and reports, as well as resources and information about organisations working in this area. Click on an inquiry to go to its detailed page. Please get in touch if there is a report or inquiry you would like to see added or if you find something which needs to be corrected.
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Rhodesia sanctions (Bingham)
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Legal, Finance
The Bingham Inquiry was a 16-month investigation commissioned in 1977 to expose how British oil companies BP and Shell bypassed international sanctions to fuel the illegal Ian Smith regime in Rhodesia. Led by Thomas Bingham QC, the report revealed that the companies used a complex "swap" arrangement with the French firm Total to keep oil flowing while British government officials looked the other way.
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Equitable life
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Finance
The investigation into Equitable Life was not a single event but a sequence of inquiries following the near-collapse of the world's oldest mutual insurer. The most definitive "Equitable Life Inquiry" is the Penrose Report (2004), followed by the high-impact Parliamentary Ombudsman’s Report (2008).
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Mirror group
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Finance
The Mirror Group litigation established that phone hacking and unlawful information gathering were "widespread and habitual" at the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, and Sunday People from 1996 to 2011, and that this activity was concealed by senior executives and legal departments.
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