Probe: Saddam Made $21B From U.N. Program. What I’d like to know is this: How much did the U.N. and operatives in the U.N. make—like Kofi Annan and his relatives? And how much did they make in France and Germany and Russia and China? As Senator Norm Coleman says, “This is like an onion”. A stinky, smelly, onion that needs a lot more peeling.
Saddam Hussein’s regime made more than $21.3 billion in illegal revenue by subverting the U.N. oil-for-food program — more than double previous estimates, according to congressional investigators.
“This is like an onion — we just keep uncovering more layers and more layers,” said Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., whose Senate Committee on Government Affairs received the new information at hearing Monday.
New figures on Iraq’s alleged surcharges, kickbacks and oil-smuggling are based on troves of new documents obtained by the committee’s investigative panel, Coleman told reporters before the hearing. The documents illustrate how Iraqi officials, foreign companies and sometimes politicians allegedly contrived to allow the Iraqi government vast illicit gains.
The findings also reflect a growing understanding by investigators of the intricate schemes Saddam used to buy support abroad for a move to lift U.N. sanctions.
Coleman said the probe is just beginning and that officials aim to discover “how this massive fraud was able to thrive for so long.” He said he is angry that the United Nations has not provided documents and access to officials that investigators need to move ahead.
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