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BAE settlement 'a betrayal'

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Arms Trade campaigners have criticised the out of court settlement reached between the UK's biggest defence manufacturer BAE Systems and British and American authorities. The firm is to pay £280m in fines over investigations into whether it paid bribes in Saudi Arabia and Tanzania.

Kaye Stearman, from the Campaign Against the Arms Trade, reacts to the case.

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