As Gordon Brown joined other Commonwealth leaders in a ringing condemnation of corruption they delivered at their 2007 summit in Kampala, Uganda, he could hardly have imagined how close to home the problem was.
The local troops responsible for guarding the prime minister, the Queen and other guests at the meeting had been trained in part by a British company that paid bribes to win the contract. Niels Tobiasen, the Danish managing director of The CBRN Team, a Wiltshire-based specialist in combating chemical, biological and nuclear warfare, was given a five-month suspended jail sentence in London last September, after he admitted giving £83,000 to two senior Ugandan officials to win about £210,000 worth of business.
