Aussie oil-for-food probe sees crimes
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An inquiry cleared Australia's government of wrongdoing in an Iraqi oil-for-food scandal Monday, but recommended top officials of the monopoly wheat exporter face charges for paying more than $200 million to the Saddam Hussein regime.
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Companies that bought Iraqi oil from traders who allegedly bribed Saddam Hussein for contracts under the U.N. oil-for-food program could be implicated in a web of corruption uncovered by a U.N. panel, a Swiss criminal lawyer said Sunday.
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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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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 &#36;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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An Australian inquiry into alleged bribes paid to export wheat to Saddam Hussein's Iraq delivers its report.
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SYDNEY : An investigation has been ordered into whether the media was tipped off before a car bombing that caused Australia&#39;s first casualties in the Iraq conflict, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said.
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Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Australia&#39;s government is considering stockpiling crude oil or refined petroleum products to protect the country from disruption to oil imports, the Australian reported.
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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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Singapore police launch a criminal investigation into the $550m  trading scandal surrounding collapsed jet fuel supplier China Aviation Oil.
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Visiting Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson called for beefed-up criminal investigation ties with India to speed up probes into attacks such as the failed bombings in Britain.
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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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Investor's Business Daily - Oil For Food: It's one of the great scandals of our time, no less so because the big media have mostly ignored it. Now comes a report hinting why some key former allies opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq: They were bribed.
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U.S. investigators working in parallel to a U.N.-commissioned probe into allegations of corruption in its oil-for-food program said they hope to use public hearings to lift a curtain of secrecy obscuring the United Nations' finances and management.
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SINGAPORE : Singaporean authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the half-billion-dollar financial scandal surrounding Chinese oil trading firm China Aviation Oil.
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Investigators probing allegations of impropriety in the U.N. oil-for-food program have questioned Secretary-General Kofi Annan about his involvement and will do so again, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday.
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Failures in U.N. management of the Iraq oil-for-food program may have permitted excess payments of hundreds of millions of dollars to governments and companies, according to 55 internal audits of the humanitarian program. The excess payments were made even as then-President Saddam Hussein was stealing billions from the program.
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Singapore authorities said Friday they had launched a criminal investigation into China Aviation Oil over a 550 million dollar trading scandal that has raised fresh questions