Jail for MoD official Jeffrey Cook for his role in £9m Saudi bribes scandal

An MoD official who took kickbacks worth more than £70,000 for commissioning military reports for the Saudi Arabian government has been jailed for two-and-a-half years. Jeffrey Cook, 67, was the managing director of the Airbus subsidiary GPT Special Project Management Ltd, whose sole business was working on the Saudi National Guard’s communications. GPT admitted corruption and was fined £30 million in 2021. Payments were made to members of the Saudi royal household including HRH Miteb bin Abdullah, Southwark Crown Court…