A spy scandal and a secret trial
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Australia and Timole Governments Negotiating a Deal in Relation to the Energy Reserves
This case has its roots in a spying scandal involve australia, our neighbor, timor, lest and some of the world's biggest energy companies. At stake billions of dollars worth of gas and oil that lie in the temor sea between Australia and Timor. The cabinet officers of the timor government had been bugged. And so the ostran government could see their hand the whole time. They knew what timor's negotiating positions were. It was very advantageous for australia given most of the resources of far closer to temor than the australian shore.
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