So not only were they paying bribes and kickbacks but they were engaging in blackmail as well.
Heads should roll?
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
See article:
The AWB threatened to expose Saddam Hussein's vast scheme of kickbacks when the wheat exporter's payments failed to get results from the Iraqi government, an inquiry has been told.
Mark Emons, a former AWB manager turned whistleblower, today finished his devastating evidence to a corruption inquiry with more details about the system of illicit payments he admits setting u
p.
In a fax tendered to the Commission of Inquiry, Mr Emons threatened to go to the United Nations about Iraq's massive rorting of the UN's oil-for-food program.
He delivered the threat after six months of paying kickbacks to Iraq in the form of "trucking fees" failed to sort out shipping and discharge delays at the port of Umm Qasr which were costing AWB dearly.
"You will be aware of the restrictions that the UN has in place on such payments and as you are aware this now means that we must halt further payments," Mr Emons wrote to the director of the Iraqi Grain Board.
See full Article.
Also see Statement from the Board of the Australian Wheat Board.
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