IRAQ OIL FOR FOOD – PLASTICS – SADDAM KICKBACKS REPORT

BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN plastics 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. A report said they paid Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts under the scheme, out of 2,200 companies overall. Participating companies came from all over the world, but local Middle East suppliers were strongly represented. For instance, the Jordan Polypropylene Industry Co Ltd (JPCO) was said to have paid US$518,775 in ...


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