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Bribe, Inc. tells the true-crime tale of one of the most audacious bribery schemes in modern history. In the shadows of the global oil industry, the Ahsani family ran their small Monaco-based company with jet-set style and total impunity. Unaoil helped many of the world’s best-known companies secure lucrative deals throughout the Middle East – until a company insider came forward with hundreds of thousands of pages of damning information that he leaked to investigative reporter Nick McKenzie.

In a manhunt spanning four continents, Nick teams up with leading anti-corruption activist Alexandra Wrage to untangle the Ahsanis’ web of deceit and corruption. As the plot twists and turns, will justice be served?

Variety called the film’s revelations “explosive” with “potentially huge global reverberations.”

 

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film’s producers and with Alexandra Wrage, a key character in the film who is the founder of TRACE International, a leading anti-corruption organization.

 

Filled with the kind of cloak-and-dagger developments one associates with potboilers and airport novels – clandestine meetings, coded emails and secret-filled hard drives.

The Guardian

Director

Peter W Klein

Featuring

“Figaro”, Nick McKenzie, Alexandra Wrage

Credits
Country of Origin

Australia

Year

2024

Language

English

19+
93 min

Book Tickets

Wednesday January 15

7:30 pm
Guests/Q&As Hearing Assistance
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Credits

Executive Producer

Mark Miller, Jhod Cardinal

Producer

Calyn Shaw, Peter Klein

Editor

Mike Jackson, Kim Frank

Original Music

Salvador Ferreras, Peter Klein

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