French Bank in Oil-For-Food Program Probe
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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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French authorities are investigating the business practices of Adecco SA, the world's largest temporary staffing company, claiming it may have violated French and European Union rules on competition, the company said Wednesday.
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 22 -- A U.N.-appointed investigator probing corruption in the world body's oil-for-food program in Iraq published today a list of all 4,734 companies that traded with Saddam Hussein's government through the arrangement. The 300-page list provides the most comprehensive public account to date of Iraq's business dealings under the former program, under which Iraq was allowed to sell oil to purchase humanitarian supplies.
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A key probe into the U.N.  oil-for-food program in Iraq was sharply critical of U.N.  management and found that the U.N. official running the  operation had steered oil contracts to a particular firm.
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The difficulty of finding out who paid kickbacks in the U.N. oil-for-food program is illustrated by two Liechtenstein-based firms, Alcon Petroleum and Fenar Petroleum.
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BNP Paribas confirmed on Thursday that it  was studying a possible bid for Societe Generale, as its fellow  French bank reeled from rogue trading losses and France warned  off would-be foreign bidders.
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Dramatic new details of France&#39;s secret dealings with Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime have emerged as part of a fresh corruption investigation into alleged illicit oil deals.
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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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British energy major BP has confirmed that it was facing a US investigation over whether the group had manipulated crude oil and motor fuel markets.
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The Treasury Department took action Tuesday against two foreign banks it suspects of money laundering, including one it accused of helping Saddam Hussein use funds from the United Nations' oil-for-food program.
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UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was unaware his son received $30,000 a year for over five years from a Swiss-based company under investigation in connection with suspected corruption in the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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BP P LC, Europe's second-largest oil company, is being investigated by U S authorities for possible manipulation of the crude-oil and unleaded-gasoline markets, a spokesman said.
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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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The U.N. inquiry into  allegations of corruption in the now-defunct Iraqi oil-for-food  program on Thursday released the names of some 4,500 firms that  did business with Baghdad but did not rule on their guilt or  innocence.
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A probe into the U.N. oil-for-food program for Iraq said the director of the operation got oil allocations for a firm run by a friend, and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan vowed to discipline him.
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jumped on Friday after a report that fellow French bank Credit Agricole had hired advisers to study a possible approach.
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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.