Most of Saddam's Illicit Money Smuggled -Volcker
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Most of the money that Saddam Hussein illicitly obtained by cheating on U.N. sanctions on Iraq came from oil smuggling outside the U.N. oil-for-food program, the head of an independent inquiry said on Tuesday.
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The Iraq insurgency has become financially self-sustaining, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, corrupt charities and other crimes, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions.
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Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash.
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The Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein issued millions of dollars in lucrative oil export vouchers to leading French, Russian and other foreign politicians as part of a concerted effort to win their assistance in lifting UN sanctions against Iraq, according to a CIA report made public here.
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A Senate panel says it has obtained Iraqi documents providing new evidence that the former head of the U.N. oil-for-food program made up to &#36;1.2 million through oil deals with Saddam Hussein's government.
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Prosecutors said that the hip-hop music producer and record executive Irv Gotti had aided a friend in concealing more than $1 million in illicit narcotics proceeds.
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VIENNA, Austria -- It now appears that nearly 400 tons of high-powered explosives may have disappeared from an Iraqi ammunition depot before US troops seized the facility during the opening days of the war against Saddam Hussein.
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Saddam Hussein's regime reaped over  $21 billion from kickbacks and smuggling before and during the  now-defunct U.N. oil-for-food program, twice as much as  previous estimates, according to a U.S. Senate probe on Monday.
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Russian firms bought about 30 percent  of the oil sold under Iraq's now-defunct oil-for-food program,  according to a U.N. investigator's extensive list of companies  that did business with Saddam Hussein's government.
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The immense scope of an Iraqi effort in the late 1990s to curry political support for ending an international trade embargo is reflected in a list of more than 1,300 oil "vouchers" that then-President Saddam Hussein gave to more than a hundred corporations, foreign officials and political parties stretching from North America to Asia, according to a report issued on Wednesday by the CIA's Iraq Survey Group.
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MEXICO CITY - Mexico has captured a drug lord accused of handling half of the illegal drugs smuggled across the border into the United States and who had a US$2 million ($3.
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Interviews with dozens of former and current Iraqi officials by congressional investigators have produced new evidence that Saddam Hussein micromanaged business deals under the U.N. oil-for-food program to maximize political influence with important foreign governments like Russia and neighboring Arab states.
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WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein illegally pocketed a staggering $21 billion from the scandal-scarred UN oil-for-food program â-ore than twice the previous estimate, congressional investigators said yesterday.
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A former Russian top spy says his agents helped the Russian government steal nearly $500 million from the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq before the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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US companies and individuals received from Saddam Hussein's government vouchers, which let them buy Iraqi crude under the UN oil-for-food program, The New York Times reported Saturday.
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Saddam Hussein was dead broke, the result of U.N. penalties. Or so it was thought. So where did the Iraqi president find the money to pursue missile technology from North Korea, air defense systems from Belarus and other prohibited military equipment?
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Saddam Hussein diverted money from the U.N. oil-for-food program to pay millions of dollars to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who carried out attacks on Israel, say congressional investigators who uncovered evidence of the money trail.