UN OIL FOR FOOD REPORT IRAQ SADDAM HUSSEIN KICKBACKS – STEEL, ALUMINIUM, COPPER SUPPLIERS
October 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLFERROUS and non-ferrous metal companies paid together millions 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 150 suppliers of ferrous metal products ranging from carbon steel plates, steel coil, steel joists, galvanised steel cores, steel bars, steel pipes, fabricated steel and others are named in the report, as are around 50 suppliers of aluminium, copper and lead. They include companies from Jordan, Oman, Italy, Lebanon, ...
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