IRAQ OIL FOR FOOD PROGRAMME REPORT – OILS AND FATS KICKBACKS
November 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLOILS and fats companies paid 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. More than 200 suppliers from countries including Jordan, India, Indonesia, Russia and Egypt paid Iraq to secure contracts to supply humanitarian supplies. One of the larger kickbacks involved Jordan's National Edible Oil Group LLC paying US$535,110 to obtain ghee contracts worth US$5.8 million - the company did not comment on the claims to the ...
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