U.N. Probe Points to Iraq's Oil-Smuggling
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Paul Volcker, who is heading an investigation of alleged corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program, said in an interview that most of the money illegally obtained by Saddam Hussein was from smuggling, which was known by the U.N. Security Council but not stopped.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was questioned twice last year by the commission investigating the Iraq oil-for-food scandal, a U.N. spokesman acknowledged on Tuesday.
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The UN oil-for-food programme in Saddam Hussein's Iraq was "tainted", an inquiry report will say.
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THE INVESTIGATION: The FBI is looking into whether a subsidiary of Halliburton Co. improperly received lucrative federal government contracts for work in Iraq without competitive bidding.
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GENEVA - The UN-ordered probe into oil-for-food corruption is being seriously hampered by an elaborate system of ghost firms set up around the world to cover the tracks of bribes to Saddam Hussein as he cheated the $60 billion program, a top investigator
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Two separate reports have recently surfaced describing in greater detail allegations of corruption in the United Nations-administered oil-for-food (OFF) program in Iraq and the so-called "oil voucher" scheme by ...
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After creating difficulties last month, Russia is now cooperating with the independent investigation into alleged corruption in the multibillion-dollar U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq, a spokesman for the investigation said Friday.
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The U.S. agency charged with investigating allegations of waste and fraud by contractors involved in rebuilding Iraq is itself the subject of four government probes, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
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NEW YORK - Congressional investigators examining "a semitrailer truck load" of subpoenaed documents are trying to determine whether lax monitoring at a French bank that held more than $60 billion for the U.N. oil-for-food program facilitated illicit business deals by the former Iraqi government, officials told The Associated Press...
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A House subcommittee investigating the United Nations oil-for-food program expanded its inquiry on Tuesday to the Bush administration&#39;s postwar stewardship of Iraq&#39;s oil money.
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A British oil trader was arrested Thursday on U.S. charges of paying bribes to Saddam Hussein as part of the discredited U.N. oil-for-food program for Iraq.
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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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Investigators probing alleged corruption at the United Nations oil-for-food program are scrutinizing thousands of pages of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's documents, including e-mail and phone records, to determine whether he exerted influence in securing a contract for a Swiss company that employed his son.
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Paris will deliver confidential documents to U.N. investigators to refute charges in a report published on a CIA Web site that French firms abused the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq, officials said on Monday.
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A private intelligence firm hired by the United Nations to look into corruption in the oil-for-food program provided valuable leads to U.N. investigators, but they were ignored, the company's director says.
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Internal U.N. audits of the  Iraqi oil-for-food program found large contractors overcharging  the world body by several million dollars and said one U.N.  agency systematically mishandled funds in the field.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market.