UN OIL FOR FOOD PRINTING SUPPLIES SADDAM KICKBACKS – IRAQ
October 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLPRINTING supplies companies paid together hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam Hussein regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. More than 30 suppliers of printing machines, paper, inks, etc., from countries including Jordan, China and Egypt paid the Iraq government to secure contracts to supply humanitarian supplies under the scheme, out of 2,200 companies named in a committee report. Printing industry kickbacks mentioned included Egypt's Papyrus Co. Paper ...
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