IRAQ OIL FOR FOOD KICKBACK SCANDAL REPORT – CONFECTIONARY AND SUGAR
November 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLSUGAR, honey and biscuit supply companies 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. There were 79 suppliers of these confectionary-related products (76 supplied sugar) named in a report, who paid Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts under the scheme, out of 2,200 companies overall. Kickbacks mentioned included Al-Khaleej Sugar Co LLC, of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), paying US$958,124 to ...
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