Indictments Returned in Oil For Food Case
A federal grand jury has returned Indictments in the UN Oil for Food Program scandal.
A Texas businessman, as well as a British and a Bulgarian citizen, have been indicted in New York for reportedly paying millions of dollars in secret kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq as part of the United Nations oil-for-food program.
The company indicted is Bayoil. Austin Bay has been live-blogging the Indictments. The Counter-Terrorism blog has links to the Indictments:
HERE is the indictment of David Chalmers,Texan who runs Bayoil, and the company itself; John Irving, the British citizen; and Ludmil Dionissiev, the Bulgarian citizen. HERE is the indictment of Tongsun Park, a South Korean also indicted for acting as Saddam's agent.
[links via Instapundit.]
Some have charged that this is a Bush manufactured scandal to take down the U.N. and distract us from focusing on the lack of WMD and a valid reason for the War in Iraq. Russ Baker in the Nation writes about Judith Miller's allegedly biased reporting on the issue. The Christian Science Monitor reports on a far bigger Bush administration emerging scandal.[Link via Cut to the Chase.]
Here is Kofi Annan's 2003 statement to the Security Council on the termination of the program.
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