Dutch investigators will question politicians in Jamaica about bribes allegedly received from multinational oil trader Trafigura, the prosecution service in The Hague said today, according to Agence France Presse.
Trafigura “is suspected of having paid bribes to politicians in Jamaica”, Dutch prosecution spokesman Wim de Bruin told AFP of a probe that started in 2007.
The company was registered in Amsterdam, he noted, “which means that if a suspicion arises that it has made itself guilty of bribery in another country, the Dutch prosecution service can open a criminal investigation”.
De Bruin declined to confirm a report in the daily Volkskrant newspaper that the company allegedly paid 466,000 euros (640,000 dollars) towards a politician’s re-election campaign in exchange for the extension of an oil contract.
