Join Phoenix New Times for members-only film event in Tempe on May 28

Tales of corporate corruption are nothing new. But next week, Phoenix New Times will host a free members-only screening of "Bribe, Inc.," a 2024 documentary that chronicles the exposé of the biggest bribery scandal in modern history.

New Times members can watch the film, followed by a Q&A with director Peter Klein, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 28, at Harkins Theatres Arizona Mills 18, 5000 S. Arizona Mills Circle, Tempe. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. (Full disclosure: New Times Editor-in-Chief Sam Eifling was a producer on the film.)


In the shadows of the global oil industry, a company with a jet-set lifestyle and greasy palms operates with total impunity – until a whistleblower named “Figaro” reached out to Australian journalist Nick MacKenzie with enough insider intel to take them down.

"Bribe, Inc." takes viewers on a documentary journey in which a team of award-winning reporters investigate the Ahsani family, who run a company called Unaoil from the tiny principality of Monaco.

Unaoil reached across the globe to pay multimillion-dollar bribes in oil-rich states. The beneficiaries of these ill-gotten gains include some of the biggest companies in Europe, North America and Australia. The files that Nick obtained from “Figaro” turn out to be the biggest exposé of bribery and corruption in modern history. The information they uncovered fueled investigations across a dozen countries, and put the Ahsanis in the crosshairs of some of the most powerful law enforcement agencies in the world, including the American FBI and the British Serious Fraud Office.

Nick and “Figaro” follow the money and chase down the Ahsanis – a manhunt spanning the globe from Iraq to Monaco, Rome, London, Australia and the US. As the admitted outlaws at the center of this case begin facing the courtroom, the question remains – will there be justice?

Current New Times members will receive a link to RSVP via email. Nonmembers who wish to attend the screening can make a contribution of any size on the New Times website.