ABB, the Swiss-Swedish engineering group, has agreed to pay more than $58m to settle criminal and civil charges in relation to alleged payment of bribes and kickbacks in Mexico and Iraq. The Swiss-Swedish engineering group was charged by the US with conspiracy and violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Prosecutors alleged that ABB and its […]
Egyptian private- and public-sector officials have criticized the Foreign Ministry's seeming disregard for demands by the Trade Ministry’s Trade Representation Agency for US$1.1billion in compensation to be paid out to Egyptian companies and workers in Iraq as part of the UN's longstanding Oil-for-Food Program, according to a report in Al-Masry Al-Youm. Egyptian companies operating in […]
South African President Jacob Zuma said there are no legal means to prosecute traders for paying bribes to win Iraqi oil contracts under the United Nations’ oil- for-food program that operated before 2003, according to a report from Bloomberg. Zuma closed an investigation into trader Sandile Majali, citing loopholes in local laws. Majali was named […]
The NGO Coordination Committee in Iraq (NCCI) has issued the following statement regarding the $8.7 billion of Iraqi funds that cannot be accounted for: Last week, the US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) issued an audit stating that the Pentagon cannot account for 96 percent of $9.1 billion that was set aside for […]
A United Nations commission has paid 590 million dollars to nine successful claimants in connection with Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
French oil giant Total said Tuesday it has been charged with corruption and influence-peddling relating to the United Nations' Iraqi oil-for-food programme of the 1990s.
French judicial investigators have revived their eight-year inquiry into corruption linked to the United Nations oil-for-food programme in Iraq by placing Total under formal investigation for bribery in the affair.
As of the end of 2008, the fund had received nearly $180 billion - and now the Iraqi Government has a “realistic” plan to take full ownership by the end of this year of the fund a top United Nations budget official told the Security Council today.
