It is very bad when they don't see the conflict and it is worse when they do and say nothing!
There was clearly something rotten at the AWB.
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
See article:
A key AWB finance manager has revealed his suspicions about wheat payments to Iraq.
The executive’s testimony comes as the Cole commission releases documents that show that Australian officials were told in January 2000 about possible irregularities in the way AWB had been paid under the United Nation's oil-for-food program.
AWB's national trade finance manager Graham Owen, in evidence to the Cole commission inquiry into the $300 million in kickbacks AWB paid to Iraq, said he did not have a hands-on role in organising the illicit payments.
Iraq began demanding the kickbacks in 1999 by imposing a $US12/tonne so-called inland transport fee on AWB's wheat, despite the fees breaching sanctions the UN had imposed under its oil-for-food program.
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