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AWB ex-Chairman Fined over Iraq Food-for-Oil Scandal

By on 15th April 2017 in Iraq Oil & Gas News, Security

By John Lee. A former chairman of the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) has been fined $50,000 and banned from a managing a corporation for five years for failing to properly investigate $223 million in kickbacks paid to Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. But according to a report from ABC News, Trevor Flugge's reputation for honesty […]

Australian Oil-for-Food Case Dropped

By on 23rd December 2013 in Agriculture, Security

By John Lee. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has today discontinued its proceedings in the Supreme Court of Victoria against Charles Stott and Michael Long for alleged breaches of their duties as officers of AWB Limited -- formerly the Australian Wheat Board -- in connection with the United Nations Oil for Food Programme in […]