Company chiefs bribed Angolan oil company agent

  Three former managers at a logistics company bribed an agent of the Angolan state oil company in a bid to rescue a £15.2m drilling contract with BP, a court heard. Chiefs at FH Bertling Ltd paid £265,000 to Francisco Bravo Paolo, the ‘extremely powerful’ chairman of the block 18 region in the Congo basin where the work was to be carried out. The corrupt payments related to Bertling’s freight forwarding business in Angola and a contract worth at least…