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On 12 April 2004, the Coalition Provisional Authority in Erbil in northern Iraq handed over $1.5 billion in cash to a local courier. The money, fresh $100 bills shrink-wrapped on pallets, which filled three Blackhawk helicopters, came from oil sales under the UN�s Oil for Food Programme, and had been entrusted by the UN Security Council to Americ
Published on Friday 30th of July 2010 02:18:20 PM
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The World Food Programme entrusted to feed the world’s poor, most vulnerable, living on the cusp death, where a small bowl of rice would mean more than all the oil in the world. Alas, the WPF is failing, checks are not in place to ensure that camps are real; moral statue of employee is brought under question as food is sold or held to ransom.
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How do we produce food when the oil runs out? This programme talks about peak oil, farming and permaculture.
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A UN-commissioned inquiry headed by former US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker found that 2,200 companies in 66 countries had paid kickbacks to Iraqi officials to win supply contracts under the $60bn (£30bn) programme.
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Iraq has filed a lawsuit that claims the defendants violated US racketeering laws including mail and wire fraud and money laundering. Chevron and Swiss oil trading firm Vitol were also accused of breaching their fiduciary duties. "The corruption of the United Nations Oil-For-Food Programme OFFP has been described as the largest financial fraud."
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The Iraqi government has said it will file lawsuits in US courts against firms and people suspected of illegally profiting from a UN programme.
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