AP: Saddam Abused Oil-For-Food Program
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Interviews with dozens of former and current Iraqi officials by congressional investigators have produced new evidence that Saddam Hussein micro-managed 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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Saddam Hussein was hospitalized Sunday and fed with a tube on the 17th day of a hunger strike to ensure he was healthy enough to continue with his trial, the chief prosecutor said. The procedure came as the ex-leader's troubled trial nears a verdict that could lead to his hanging.
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The Bush administration, which  earlier backed Secretary-General Kofi Annan in the U.N.  oil-for-food scandal, on Tuesday demanded he be held  accountable for mismanagement in the program.
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As investigators continued their probe into the scandal-tainted U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq, the Associated Press learned on Sunday that at least two Swiss trading companies paid kickbacks to secure contracts to buy oil from Saddam Hussein.
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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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Most of the money that Saddam Hussein illicitly obtained by cheating on UN sanctions on Iraq came from oil smuggling outside the UN oil-for-food program, the head of an independent inquiry said on Tuesday.
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A businessman implicated in the scandal-ridden United Nations oil-for-food program facilitated unofficial attempts at diplomacy between senior U.S. and Iraqi government officials in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to testimony and documents in the trial of one of his associates, a Texas oil tycoon.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 16 -- A United Nations-appointed investigator probing corruption in Iraq's oil-for-food program has rejected a request by a Senate committee to strip U.N. officials of their immunity so they can testify before Congress. The U.N. official agreed to release, at a time of his choosing, internal audits of the program and other confidential documents sought by Congress.
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The chairman of a congressional committee contended Monday that U.N. officials "encouraged, or at least tacitly condoned," President Saddam Hussein's widespread abuse of Iraq's oil-for-food relief program.
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NEW YORK -- The UN oil-for-food program chief, under scrutiny for alleged corruption and mismanagement, blocked a proposed audit of his office around the same time he is accused of soliciting lucrative oil deals from Iraq, investigators said. A UN auditing team, which was severely understaffed, said running the $64 billion oil-for-food program was ''a high-risk activity" and a priority ...
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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, a US weapons inspector said in a report made public here.
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Majid is accused of having ordered 1988 gassing of the Kurds in Halabja that killed some 5,000 people. BAGHDAD - Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein nicknamed &quot;Chemical Ali&quot; for the gassing of
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The independent panel investigating alleged corruption in the multibillion-dollar U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq released the names of 248 companies on Thursday that received Iraqi oil and 3,545 companies ...
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New York (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Like an oil slick in the sea, the scandal related to the Oil-for-food (OFF) programme is getting bigger and bigger.
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Iraq said it wanted its money back from the scandal-tainted U.N. oil-for-food program Friday as Secretary-General Kofi Annan vowed to get to the bottom of wrongdoing by U.N. staff.
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An Iraqi-American on Tuesday pleaded  guilty to conspiracy, violating economic sanctions and other  charges in connection with corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food  program for Iraq, court documents showed.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Benon Sevan, the official accused of improperly receiving lucrative rights to purchase oil from Saddam Hussein's government while he was running the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq, discouraged his staff from probing allegations of corruption and helped block efforts by the U.N. anti-corruption unit to assess where the program was vulnerable to abuse, according to senior U.N. officials.