Statement by Global Witness Last month it was revealed that the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) would investigate a British oil company that had been making payments to officials in a highly unstable African country. The company was paying figures connected to the local government as it attempted to secure its business interests in the
British offshore firm ‘Soma Oil and Gas’ on spot over fraud in Somalia
British oil firm Soma Oil and Gas paid gross sums to the Oil ministry in Somalia, to extend the Oil exploration contract it signed with the war-torn country in 2013, the United Nations Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group (“UNSEMG”) has revealed. Soma Oil & Gas is an offshore private UK company founded in 2013 to pursue