Hussein Beat Sanctions With Bribes
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Saddam Hussein made $11 billion in illegal income and eroded the world's toughest economic embargo during his final years as Iraq's leader through shrewd schemes to secretly buy off dozens of countries, top foreign officials and major international figures,  said a new report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector released yesterday.
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Britain's Serious Fraud Office is investigating allegations that several firms based in London paid bribes to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime as part of the discredited UN oil-for-food programme, The Guardian has reported.
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The Australian government has been cleared of illegal activity by a report into the payment of huge bribes to the Iraqi regime of former dictator Saddam Hussein, parliament has been told.
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Saddam Hussein diverted money from the U.N. oil-for-food program to pay millions of dollars to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who carried out attacks on Israel, say congressional investigators who uncovered evidence of the money trail.
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GENEVA -- The United Nations probe into oil-for-food corruption is being seriously hampered by a web 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 said.
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SADDAM Hussein believed that the United Nations system was so corrupt that it would protect his dictatorship from American aggression and allow him to complete quickly his quest for weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
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Saddam Hussein's convicted of masterminding genocidal military campaign against Iraq's Kurds.
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The former financial boss of Australia's monopoly wheat exporter has vowed to fight any criminal charges arising from a damning report alleging he approved hefty bribes to Saddam Hussein.
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Iraqâs parliament passed a measure to ease restrictions on members of Saddam Husseinâs Baath party.
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A list of firms punished for trading with Iran or Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the executives or directors who are top campaign fund-raisers for President Bush or Democratic Sen. John Kerry:
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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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CIA analyst Charles A. Duelfer's report on Iraq's weapons programs included lists of governments, political parties, companies and individuals from at least 44 nations who received vouchers to buy oil -- both legally and otherwise -- from the Iraqi government during Saddam Hussein's reign.
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Analysis: Prime Minister Maliki has suspended an entire brigade to cleanse it of corruption. But is it any more than a political gesture?
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The U.N.-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 &#36;60 billion program, a top investigator said.
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Iraq illicitly earned an estimated $21.3 billion by circumventing United Nations sanctions between 1991 and 2003, according to estimates released Monday by a U.S. Senate panel.
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The head of an inquiry into claims Australian wheat exporter AWB funnelled huge bribes to Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq has blasted the firm for its lateness in handing over damning documents.
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Suitcases full of cash, secret bank accounts, covert operatives, corrupt politicians on the take. A report detailing alleged illicit U.N. oil-for-food deals with the former Iraq government paints a portrait of Saddam Hussein as an international gangster &#151; not a nuclear terrorist.