An investigative documentary film by Salt Spring’s Peter Klein — Bribe, Inc. — has been nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Business Documentary.
According to press material about the film, “nearly a decade in the making, Bribe, Inc. uncovers one of the largest corporate bribery scandals in modern history — a story that had previously eluded public attention, despite its staggering scale. At its centre is Unaoil, a Monaco-based company that operated as a global middleman, helping multinationals like Rolls-Royce, Honeywell, KBR and Samsung secure billions of dollars in oil contracts through the systematic bribery of government officials across the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia.
“Told through four central figures — investigative reporter Nick McKenzie, U.K. law enforcement veteran Tom Martin, anti-corruption crusader Alexandra Addison and a courageous whistleblower who risked his life to expose the scheme — the film unfolds with the pace and tension of a political thriller.”
Klein is the film’s director, co-producer, co-executive producer and co-writer and the film was produced out of his Salt Spring studio. Addison, the film’s main protagonist, is from Delta and lives in Vancouver.
Bribe, Inc. was shown at the 2025 Salt Spring Film Festival, where it shared the Audience Favourite Canadian Feature Film Award with The Stand. The film debuted at the Hollywood Film Festival and had its Canadian premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival cinema.
Variety called the film’s revelations “explosive.” The Guardian described it as “filled with the kind of cloak-and-dagger developments one associates with potboilers and airport novels.” Daily Mail called it the “greatest exposé of bribery and corruption in modern history.”
Klein has been an Emmy nominee multiple times for work with colleagues on shows such as 60 Minutes, where he was a producer for many years, Frontline/World and 20/20, and a winner on three occasions.
Klein is a professor in the School of Journalism, Writing and Media at UBC and founded and co-directs the non-profit Global Reporting Centre from there.