UN OIL FOR FOOD PROGRAMME UN TOBACCO SUPPLIES SADDAM KICKBACKS IRAQ
November 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTWO Indian tobacco companies and four cigarette manufacturing suppliers from Jordan and Italy paid together hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam Hussein regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. They were named in a report listing 2,200 companies paying Iraq to secure 'humanitarian' supply contracts under the scheme. The Deccan Tobacco Enterprise paid US$455,299, said the report, in securing a contract worth US$5 million for supplying "flue cured tabacco ...
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