A flurry of denials over Ugandan bribery cable | WikiLeaked
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Amama Mbabazi (above), #Uganda's security minister and the official named in Lanier’s cable — in which Lanier told his superiors that the United States might consider revoking Mbabazi’s U.S. visa — said he was equally perplexed by what the cable had to say about his relationship with Italy’s #ENI and Britain’s #Heritage_Oil. He said:
These allegations are absolutely untrue. I have never received even an offer let alone payment from Heritage or ENI of that kind or for anything. However at that time there was report in The Times of London which did not name anyone but talked about corruption over the deal. What surprised me is that the embassy believes that the allegations are true and concluded that the deal showed signs of high level corruption in Uganda’s oil sector. This is incredible. I am surprised they would make a statement like that without cross checking with me about my alleged involvement.
ENI also said that Lanier was far off the mark, and that it intended legal action against WikiLeaks.