The Guardian: Glencore’s former oil trading chief with conspiring to make corrupt payments to benefit the company’s West African oil operations

Alex Beard, Glencore’s former head of oil trading, along with ex-executives Andrew Gibson faces charges from a long-running bribery investigation. The charges relate to corrupt oil contract awards in Cameroon, Nigeria, and Ivory Coast from 2007 to 2014. This follows Glencore’s 2022 guilty plea to corruption and market manipulation in the US and UK for bribes in eight countries, including Brazil and South Sudan…