(ANSAmed) - LONDON, JULY 15 - The giant oil company BP
confirmed today that in 2007 it put pressure on the British
government with regard to an agreement with Libya on the
transfer of prisoners in exchange for an acceleration of talks
with Tripoli on offshore oil prospecting.
Confirmation comes from a report released by BP, leading
actor in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. According to the
report BP said ''to the British government that it was worried
by the slow development '' of an accord with Libya for an
exchange of prisoners.
The prisoner of which the report speaks is the man behind the
Lockerbie bombing, Abdel Basset Al Megrahi.
Yesterday several Democratic senators asked the Department of
State to open an investigation to find out if BP had a role in
the transfer of Al Megrahi to Libya last summer.
The request of the senators, together with an appeal to BP to
close offshore drilling in Libya, was accepted by Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, who then examined the dossier.
Al Megrahi, condemned in 2001 for the Lockerbie bombing, was
released by a Scottish court for medical reasons in August. The
attacker seemed to be dying of a tumour but after close to a
year he is still alive.(ANSAmed).
OIL SPILL: BP CONFIRMS LIBYA PRISONER EXCHANGE
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