(May 20, 2004) The independent panel investigating alleged corruption in the multibillion-dollar UN oil-for-food program in Iraq said Thursday it was pursuing claims of misconduct by UN staff and seeking access to Iraqi records.
World Bank chief denies corruption claims
(May 19, 2004) World Bank president James Wolfensohn has dismissed United States allegations that billions of dollars of bank funding was misused as “frivolous.”
Turmoil in Iraq oil-for-food audit
(May 18, 2004) Two competing requests for proposals (RFPs) from two governing authorities adds up to confusion for Big Four auditors.
US and Iraq spar over who should run corruption inquiry into oil-for-food program
(May 17, 2004) Iraq’s political leaders are sparring with the American occupation administration over who should investigate possible official and corporate corruption in the United Nations oil-for-food program.
Arafat’s money secrets
(November 12, 2004) Estimates of the Palestinian leader’s wealth vary from next to nothing to half a billion dollars.
Forgotten scandal: the UN’s Oil for Food Program
(May 13, 2004) The world’s obsession with the Iraqi prison abuse story has obscured what could be one of the most expensive scandals in the history of the world: the United Nations’ Oil for Food program.
Firms square-up over Iraq debt
(May 11, 2004) BDO Stoy Hayward and Ernst & Young are likely to face each other on opposite sides of the fence as they attempt to unravel Iraq’s long-term debts.
The U.N.’s corruption of Iraq’s ‘Oil for Food’
(May 10, 2004) The oil-for-food program for Iraq was the largest humanitarian-aid program ever undertaken by the United Nations. It appears it also provided the largest opportunity for corruption.
President backs probe of U.N. scandal
(May 10, 2004) President Bush wants investigators to get to the bottom of the oil-for-food scandal at the United Nations, which National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice says may have originated in a “corrupt underworld.”
Iraqi Central Bank confirms commitment to former regime’s financial obligations
(May 10, 2004) Faleh Dawood Suleiman, the deputy governor of the Iraqi Central Bank has assured that the Central Bank will not back off from its financial commitments inherited from the previous regime and will give everyone his rights.
Creditors club set up for Iraqi debt
(May 6, 2004) Two London-based companies specialising in illiquid emerging market debt have set up a committee to represent holders of unpaid Iraqi trade debt.
France to remit some Iraq debt
(April 25, 2004) France is prepared to cancel some of Iraq’s total external debt, estimated at more than $120 billion, French Finance Minister Nicholas Sarkozy said yesterday.
Oil for memories
(April 21, 2004) Having helped sustain and humor the tyranny and fraud of Saddam Hussein for years via the massively corrupt Oil-for-Food program, the United Nations has for the past year been seeking a new role for itself in Iraq.
Saddam cleaned up on UN’s ‘oil-for-palaces’ program
(April 20, 2004) The oil-for-food program was one of the larger rip-offs of all time. Under the UN’s nose, Saddam Hussein skimmed off billions.
Jews who fled Iraq to get compensation
(April 20, 2004) French insurance giant AXA has agreed to compensate Jews who owned property in Iraq and fled in the early 1950s, a precedent that could pave the way for reparations for some 850,000 Jews who left Arab countries, officials said Tuesday.
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