Third BAE man is targeted by US officials

The former head of Britain’s arms export agency was issued with a subpoena two weeks ago by US authorities investigating allegations of corruption at BAE Systems, highlighting their determination to pursue a case that the UK has dropped. Alan Garwood, now BAE’s business development director but who until last year was in charge of export sales at the Ministry of Defence, was served with a subpoena by Department of Justice officials at the end of May. Mr Garwood was changing aircraft at Miami airport. He is the third senior BAE executive to be served papers in relation to the DoJ’s investigation of the £43bn al-Yamamah arms deal between Saudi Arabia and the UK in 1985. It was about a week after BAE chief executive Mike Turner and Sir Nigel Rudd, a BAE non-executive director, were issued with subpoenas as they landed in the US. The targeting of Mr Garwood is potentially significant. He worked on important campaigns, including last year’s deal to sell Eurofighter Typhoons to Saudi Arabia. He was seconded to the MoD from BAE in 2002.

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