Senator Harkin Calls for Investigation of AWB Ltd.'s Alleged Oil-for-Food Violations
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) has called for the U.S. to investigate AWB Ltd.'s alleged violations of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program. AWB Ltd., the Australian company that oversees Australia's exports of wheat, was found by the Volcker Commission to have paid $220 million dollars in kickbacks to the Government of Iraq. Senator Harkin has asked the "Inspectors General for the Department of Agriculture, State Department and Iraqi Reconstruction look into who benefited from payments after the fall of Hussein and whether these illicit payments may be recovered under U.S. or international law and returned to the Iraqi people."
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