AWB Ltd, Australia's monopoly wheat exporter, knowingly provided hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime and deceived the United Nations about the payments under the oil-for-food program.
That is according to evidence presented by John Agius, a lawyer, to the Australian government's investigation into the activities of AWB.
Agius said that he would present evidence that would show that AWB's most senior executives knew they had paid close to 300 million Aus, for nonexistent trucking services that were channeled directly to Saddam's government.
He also stated that he would be presented that AWB "was prepared to deceive the UN as to the true nature of its contractual arrangement with the IGB (Iraq Grain Board)".
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