While serving as head of TNK-BP, Bob Dudley - now the head of BP as a whole - had his office bugged and raided by the police and met with onerous back-tax demands, legal action and visa problems.

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The report quotes a memo from the U.K. foreign office from November 20o2 written by an official who had just met with BP.

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The avalanche of petrodollars may sound frightening, but the Kuwaiti Investment Office remembers well the pressure from Margaret Thatcher's government to reduce its 22% stake in BP, the oil jewel in Britain's crown.

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The avalanche of petrodollars may sound frightening, but the Kuwaiti Investment Office remembers well the pressure from Margaret Thatcher's government to reduce its 22% stake in BP (nyse: BP - news - people ), the oil jewel in Britain's crown.

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