Oil-for-Food Fraud was Rampant
About half of the 4,500 companies in the U.N. oil-for-food program, including Volvo and DaimlerChrysler, paid $1.8 billion kickbacks and illicit surcharges to Saddam Hussein‘s government, a U.N.-backed investigation said in a report released Thursday.
The report alleged that Jean-Bernard Merrimee, France’s former U.N. ambassador, received $165,725 in commissions from oil allocations awarded to him by the Iraqi regime. He is now under investigation by the French authorities.
“While serving as a special adviser to the secretary general of the UN, with the rank of undersec general, Jean-Bernard Merrimee began receiving oil allocations that would ultimately total approximately six million barrels from the government of Iraq,” the report said.
Source: MSNBC.
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