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and Petroika Energy Consultants...

...created assetless shell companies...

...owned by the heirs

of Nurzan Detayev...

...Republic of Kazakhstan's

minister of Domestic Resources.

This was discussed

at the Upstream Division meeting...

...in January, 2003 in Sun Valley, Idaho.

I was at the meeting,

but I don't focus on those details.

Wherein it was described

that Killen bore all financial risk...

...but Minister Detayev's children...

...while attending

The Lily School in Switzerland...

...were entitled to all of the profits.

Seventy million dollars.

I attended the meeting, but as I said,

I don't focus on those kind of details.

Further, Daniel Dalton Jr. And

Petroika Energy Consultants colluded...

A firm retained by Killen

prior to Connex's involvement.

Oh, for chrissake, Tommy.

We both got letters from the grand jury.

- It's not your own private pity party.

- A good-faith purchaser is in good faith...

...only if they didn't know of the

problems at the time of the purchase.

This is the oil business

we're talking about?

Lowliest little shareholder knows we deal

with the most stank places on earth.

And it is illegal to offer gifts, money...

...the promise of money or anything

of value to influence foreign officials.

Is it?

I have personally seen a bill

from your law firm...

...to the government of Saudi Arabia

for $36 million.

A one-line bill for "services rendered."

The business of Whiting Sloan

is not under discussion at this time.

Well, it ought to be.

Danny's a good man.

And he's a friend of mine.

A Mareva injunction?

Some people, cousins of mine, actually,

sued my father in the Commonwealth...

Geneva, Switzerland

...alleging he broke an agreement

to repay funds from the state.

It calls them "aggrieved royals."

Aggrieved about what?

That he tried to cut their allowances

from 100,000 a month to 80?

I want to see my father.

I'm sorry, Your Highness.

Your father is not feeling well.

My cousins aren't bright enough

to be anything but finger puppets...

...and my brother has faith

only in his own cunning.

What do you suppose they're up to,

my brother and these American lawyers?

Tell me...

...what are they thinking?

What are they thinking?

What are they thinking?

They're thinking that it's running out.

It's running out.

And 90 percent of what's left

is in the Middle East.

Look at the progression.

Versailles, Suez, 1973,

Gulf War One, Gulf War Two.

This is a fight to the death.

So, what are they thinking? "Great."

They're thinking, "Keep playing,

keep buying yourself new toys.

Keep spending $50,000 a night

on your hotel room.

But don't invest in your infrastructure.

Don't build a real economy."

So that when you finally wake up,

they will have sucked you dry...

...and you will have squandered

the greatest natural resource in history.

Come with me, please.

I studied at Oxford.

I have a Ph.D. From Georgetown.

I want to create a parliament.

I want to give women the right to vote.

I want an independent judiciary.

I want to start a petroleum exchange

in the Middle East...

...cut the speculators

out of the business.

Why are the major oil exchanges

in London and New York anyway?

I'll put all of our energy

up for competitive bidding.

I'll run pipe through Iran to Europe,

like you proposed.

I'll ship to China.

Anything that achieves efficiency

and maximizes profit.

Profit which I will then use

to rebuild my country.

- That's exactly what you should do.

- Exactly.

Except your president

rings my father and says:

"I've got unemployment in Texas,

Kansas, Washington state."

A phone call later, we're stealing

out of our social programs...

...in order to buy overpriced airplanes.

We owed the Americans,

but we've repaid that debt.

I accepted a Chinese bid,

the highest bid...

...and suddenly I'm a terrorist.

I'm a godless communist.

Dean Whiting...

...who represents not only these

aggrieved royals and my brother...

...but also Connex Oil...

...they've been pressuring my father

to invalidate the Chinese contract.

But they underestimate him.

This is about his legacy to his people.

I know it seems like

people sitting in hotel rooms.

That's how they do business.

But we're...

We're talking world historical stage here.

I mean, with the... With the delivery

deals we could make in Europe...

...transport through Iran.

This guy might be able to revolutionize...

...not just his country,

but the whole region.

As soon as his father keels over, this

guy could be like Mossadegh in '52...

...in Iran. The real democracy

rising up organically.

If we can be a part of

any of these countries...

...getting a parliament,

helping them find efficiency, showing...

- You know, showing them how...

- Stop it. Stop it.

Julie, the little company

that I started working for...

...is now chief economic adviser

to Prince Nasir.

Do you understand what that means?

It's like...

...somebody put a giant ATM

on our front lawn.

Here's a question:

How do you think it looks to profit

off the death of your 6-year-old?

F*** you.

F*** you.

I changed the diapers.

I put cream on rashes.

I took him to his checkups.

I cared about every f***ing percentile.

I did everything right.

I did everything right.

We're going back to the States.

Good.

Riley?

Sweetie, sweetie, be careful.

We're gonna go now, okay?

You wanna say goodbye to your dad?

You can see him later, okay?

When I die I want the people who inherit

my possessions to do the following.

One...

... the people who prepare my body

should be good Muslims...

... so this will remind me of God

and his forgiveness.

Two...

... I don 't want anyone to rip

their clothes or slap their faces...

... because this is an ignorant thing

to do.

Three...

... I don 't want a pregnant woman

to come and say goodbye to me...

... because I don 't approve it.

Four...

Some trust-fund prosecutor

got off message at Yale...

... thinks he's gonna run this

up the flagpole?

Make a name for himself?

Maybe get elected some two-bit

congressman from nowhere...

... with the result that China or Russia...

... can suddenly start having,

at our expense...

... all the advantages we enjoy here?

No, I tell you. No, sir.

Corruption charges. Corruption?

Corruption is government intrusion...

...into market efficiencies

in the form of regulation.

That's Milton Friedman.

He got a goddamn Nobel Prize.

We have laws against it precisely

so we can get away with it.

Corruption is our protection.

Corruption keeps us safe and warm!

Corruption is why you and I are

prancing around in here...

...instead of fighting over scraps of meat

out in the street.

Corruption is why we win.

How'd it go?

Well, he's got kids, a wife.

He broke the law.

Mr. Janus himself wanted me

to extend you an invitation...

...to Oilman of the Year.

He's being honored...

...so it should be a nice weekend.

Relax. Catch yourself a massage.

Congratulations.

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