Oil-for-Food report names companies that bribed Saddam
The Times Online reports: Saddam Hussein received $1.8 billion in bribes from more than 2,200 companies in the scramble for lucrative contracts under the UN’s Oil-for-Food programme, investigators claimed today.
Russia harboured the most companies involved in the programme, followed by France, according to the inquiry led by Paul Volcker, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board.
Many of the firms which benefited were obscure front companies, but the report also includes major names, including Volvo, Siemens and DaimlerChrysler.
The complete report on the Manipulation of the Oil-for-Food Programme (27 October 2005) is available online for downloading here from the iic-offp.org (Independent Inquiry Committee) website. (You can download the report at that link as hole or in part)