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A US Senate panel reported Monday that Saddam Hussein's government provided Russian officials with millions of dollars in oil rights under the oil-for-food program in a bid to lift UN sanctions against Iraq. The report by...

The investigations subcommittee of the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee reported Thursday that British Member of Parliament George Galloway and French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua ...

A federal judge Monday ordered former UN Oil-for-Food inquiry investigator Robert Parton to cease distribution of commission documents subpoenaed by the US House of Representatives International Relations Committee . US District Judge...

Robert Parton, who resigned last month as senior investigative counsel for the Independent Inquiry Committee into the defunct UN Oil-for-Food Program , has handed over potentially incriminating documents to a US congressional committee. The...

US audits released Wednesday show that at least $100 million dollars from the Development Fund for Iraq are unaccounted for due to mismanagement or possible fraud. The US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction filed...

Following up on a story reported Thursday on JURIST, prominent Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi was named deputy prime minister and acting oil ministry chief in the Cabinet approved Wednesday by the interim national assembly...

Two high-ranking but unidentified United Nations officials have been cited in the criminal complaint released Thursday against South Korean businessman Tongsun Park for his involvement in the Iraq oil-for-food scandal . Park is accused of accepting...

United States v. Tongsun Park, United States District Court Southern District of New York, unsealed April 14, 2005 [accusing Park of accepting millions of dollars from the Iraqi government while operating in the US as an unregistered agent for Saddam...

United States v. David Chalmers at al., United States District Court Southern District of New York, April 14, 2005 [charging Texas businessman David Chalmers and others with participating in a scheme to pay millions of dollars in secret kickbacks to...

American oil services company Halliburton may have overcharged the Defense Department at least $212 million for its work providing fuel to Iraqi citizens, according to portions of Defense Contract Audit Agency audits...