VOL. XLVII

No 16

19-April-2004

IRAN

Statoil Probe Ratified By Irans Majlis

Irans Majlis (parliament) has sanctioned a probe into allegations of bribery in a consultancy contract between Statoil and Iranian-owned Horton Investment. The IRNA news agency reported on 4 April that Tahereh Rezazadeh, Rapporteur of the Majlis Energy Commission, told MPs that investigations into the case so far had only succeeded in raising questions from Petroleum Minister Bijan Zanganeh. Ratification of the probe...