UN OIL FOR FOOD SADDAM KICKBACKS REPORT
November 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL SOAP supplies companies paid together hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. There were 101 (mostly toilet) soap suppliers, from countries largely from the Middle East and east Asia, named in a report paying Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts. Soap industry kickbacks mentioned included Jordan's Industrial Commercial & Agricultural Co Ltd paying US$569,657 when securing a contract worth US$6.2 million ...
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