IRAQ CRIME
September 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLA SPECIALIST report from the United Nations on the growth in Iraq's organised crime following the fall of Saddam Hussein has claimed that three million litres of diesel are currently being smuggled from the country every day.Profits are huge, said the paper by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime: given that Iraq's oil price is "artificially cheap at 5 cents (US$) a litre", margins of 500 per cent can be earned on fuel reaching neighbouring Iran and 3,000 per cent to the United Arab Emirates. The office sourced its information from Iraqi and western ...
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