OIL FOR FOOD LATEST
August 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLANOTHER Volcker panel report into the UN Oil-for-Food scandal has accused its former director Benon Sevan of receiving programme-linked bribes worth US$147,184 from 1998-2002. The inquiry found a Sevan-associated company African Middle East Petroleum Co. Ltd (AMEP) lifted 7.3 million barrels of Iraqi oil under the programme, generating US$1.5 million revenue: US$580,000 was paid to an account controlled by Fred Nadler, (brother-in-law of former UN secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali), from which "nearly US$150,00...was deposited to...bank ...
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