Millbank Technical Services
commercial
| Millbank Technical Services | |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1967 |
| Founder | John Cuckney |
| Extinction | 1979 |
| Type | commercial |
| Used for facilitateing bribes during arms deals | |
Millbank Technical Services was an obscure body that Lester Suffield's predecessor, Ray Brown, had spotted as having laundering potential.
Origins
MTS had an office in Abbey Orchard Street, only a few strides from the Ministry of Defence. It was set up in 1967 as a limited company, a subsidiary of Crown Agents. As a limited liability company, MTS make it easier to put together credit deals for the Crown Agents' customers and hide bribes. "Foreign buyers frequently wanted the apparent respectability of official government-to-government package deals, while Whitehall wanted to pretend it had nothing to do with bribery and its inevitable stench. The motto at MTS was therefore henceforth to be: "Now you see it; now you don't.""[1]
In 1979 it was transferred to the Ministry of Defence and renamed.[1]
