Cargo shifters ‘offered bribes’

A logistics company staff bribed the Angolan state oil company to help boost business, a court heard. Employees of FH Bertling Ltd are said to have offered inducements to an agent at oil company Sonangol between January 2004 and December 2006 to advance its operations. Managing directors Jorg Blumberg, 67, Dirk Jurgensen, 45, and Ralf Petersen, 72, are all alleged to have been involved in the bribery. Former employees Marc Schweiger, 46, and Peter Ferdinand, 77, also appeared in the…