david lufkin: Petrofac's owner and chief executive, Ayman Asfari, is a major financial backer of the Conservatives, according to The Guardian. Together with his wife he has donated almost 800,000 to the party since 2009. David Lufkin, 51, the former global head of sales at Petrofac, admitted offering corrupt payments in an attempt to secure contracts in Saudi Arabia worth 3.5bn 2.7bn and contracts in Iraq worth 730m 566m . Petrofac shares fell by 20% in response to the announcement, according to Reuters. In 2014, the then prime minister David Cameron appointed Asfari to be a business ambassador . The ambassador's group, which was intended to promote the UK's excellence internationally and secure inward investment into the UK, was closed last month. Asfari was arrested and questioned under caution by the SFO, along with a member of Petrofac's senior management team. The Serious Fraud Office announced it was investigating Petrofac over allegations of bribery, corruption and money laundering in May 2017.
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