{"id":320,"date":"2006-12-29T13:13:55","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T11:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/12\/29\/statoils-crown-slips\/"},"modified":"2006-12-29T13:13:55","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T11:13:55","slug":"statoils-crown-slips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/12\/29\/statoils-crown-slips\/","title":{"rendered":"Statoil&#8217;s crown slips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/12\/19\/the-worlds-biggest-ethical-company\/\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned recently<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statoil.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Statoil<\/a> was one of the most ethical companies.<\/p>\n<p>It's disappointing to note therefore that it has settled fines of $21 million dollars <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftenposten.no\/english\/business\/article1494884.ece\" target=\"_blank\">this year<\/a> for paying bribes to secure contracts in Iran. Now this has been drawn to my attention I correct the impression given earlier. Corruption is always unacceptable. And inevitably, there was an offshore dimension.<\/p>\n<p>But Statoil does remain one of the best companies on disclosure. It's just clearly got some distance to cover as yet on other issues.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned recently that Statoil was one of the most ethical companies. It&#8217;s disappointing to note therefore that it has settled fines of $21 million<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2006\/12\/29\/statoils-crown-slips\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}