French, Russian politicians listed as recipients of Saddam's largesse
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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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Russia offered a $10 million reward on Wednesday for information to help it hunt down Chechen rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov, whom it accuses of being behind last week&#39;s deadly school siege.
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Russia will pay a &#36;10 million reward for information on the killers of five Russian Embassy staff workers in Iraq, the head of the KGB&#039;s successor agency said Friday.
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WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein used illegal spoils from the UN oil-for-food program to pay cash rewards to the families of Palestinian terrorist bombers, according to congressional investigators.
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A list of the donors who have "bundled" large sums from dozens of individuals to give to Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign includes several figures who were involved in the 1990s Democratic Party fundraising scandal that tarnished her husband's record.
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Russian firms bought about 30 percent of the oil sold under Iraq&#39;s now-defunct oil-for-food program, according to a UN investigator&#39;s extensive list of companies that did business with Saddam Hussein&#39;s government.
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MOSCOW - A top Russian general on Wednesday warned the military will strike "terrorist bases in any region of the world," while authorities offered a $10.3 million reward for information leading to two Chechen rebel leaders blamed for last week's deadly raid on a school.    In a nationally televised meeting, Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov also briefed President Vladimir Putin on the investigation into the taking of more than 1,200 hostages in a school last week in the southern Russian town of Beslan...
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major Australian wheat company paid more than $224 million in kickbacks and bribes to Saddam HusseinÂs government, according to a high-level commission investigating allegations of corruption in the United Nations oil-for-food program.
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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 that exported goods to Saddam Hussein's government.
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Russia agreed on Sunday to forgive up to 80 percent of Iraqâs debts to the Paris Club (about $33 billion). A US Treasury official quoted by Reuters said they received this information from Russia.
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Russia&#39;s Federal Security Service yesterday offered a reward of 300 million rubles (US$10.3 million) for information that could help &quot;neutralize&quot; two Chechen rebel leaders, and a military official reasserted Russia&#39;s right to strike terrorists the world
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Russia's bankers offered a big reward on  Friday for information on the killers of a top central bank  official who had crusaded against money laundering.
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A French bank may have repeatedly violated US money-laundering laws, letting Saddam Hussein rip off the multibillion-dollar UN oil-for-food program, a House investigator said yesterday.
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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 Central Intelligence Agency  on Wednesday released a list of firms and people from dozens of  countries allegedly given oil vouchers by Saddam Hussein's  government that could be turned into cash.
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MOSCOW, Nov 15 (IPS) - Russian politicians and Muslim leaders here have  thrown their weight against the death sentence handed down early  this month to Saddam Hussein, and suggest that an independent,  international tribunal be set up to retry the former Iraqi  president.
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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.