An e-mail of a scanned internal memo has been circulating in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf recently, carrying the signature of Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Attiyah, the highly influential minister of energy and industry of the wealthy State of Qatar and chairman of Qatar Petroleum.
It is addressed to the directors of QP, identifying two companies. “I hereby declare that my son owns the following companies,” it states and requests “all the concerned parties not to deal with the above mentioned companies to avoid possible conflict of interest”.
