久久亚洲国产成人影院-久久亚洲国产的中文-久久亚洲国产高清-久久亚洲国产精品-亚洲图片偷拍自拍-亚洲图色视频

  Home>News Center>World
         
 

South Korean arrested in Iraq oil-for-food scandal
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-01-07 11:05

U.S. authorities arrested a South Korean lobbyist accused of secretly scheming with top U.N. and Iraqi officials to create the oil-for-food program that turned into a multibillion-dollar scandal.

Tongsun Park was arrested in Houston on Friday on accusations of acting as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein's former government among others charges, amending original charges filed against him last April.

Park received at least $2 million in cash from Iraq to influence the United Nations' shaping of the now-defunct oil-for-food program, the U.S. attorney's office in New York said in a statement.

Much of that money was delivered in diplomatic pouches and it was understood he would use some to "take care" of an unnamed, high-ranking U.N. official, the statement said.

Park was also at the center of the 1970s "Koreagate" bribery scandal in Washington. His defense lawyer was not immediately available for comment.

"Saddam Hussein's government paid off Tongsun Park to corrupt the oil-for-food program from its inception," U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said in a statement.

The other charges are conspiring to commit wire fraud and to launder criminal proceeds.

"Park actively lobbied U.N. officials to establish the program, while extracting millions of dollars from profiteering Iraqi officials," the FBI chief in New York, Mark Mershon, said in the statement. Mershon called the oil-for-food program "a cash cow masquerading as humanitarian aid."

The U.S. authorities say Park met in 1993 with the high-ranking U.N. official at his Manhattan apartment to set the terms of the program. That meeting included an unnamed collaborator who is now cooperating with the investigation.

They also allegedly held a second meeting in Geneva that included two Iraqi officials. Both meetings were said to influence the 1995 U.N. resolution establishing the program.

The $67 billion, oil-for-food program allowed Iraq to sell oil to buy civilian goods for its people living under U.N. sanctions. It began in 1996 and ended after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

Saddam diverted some $1.8 billion in kickbacks and surcharges paid by more than 2,000 firms involved in the scheme, according to a U.N.-established Independent Inquiry Committee led by former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.

Several defendants are facing criminal charges in federal court in New York in connection with the program.



Indonesia withdraws last Aceh police personnel
Sharon suffers brain haemorrhage, in critical condition
Powerful storms hit US Northern California
 
  Today's Top News     Top World News
 

Minister: One-child rule to remain in coming years

 

   
 

Mainland seeks peaceful cross-Straits ties

 

   
 

Report ranks China 6th in overall strength

 

   
 

Japan, China to hold 'informal' talks on ties

 

   
 

China plans prudent monetary policy for 2006

 

   
 

Anti-corruption drive an arduous task

 

   
  Sharon improves but prognosis still dire
   
  Russian delegation's visit to Iran postponed
   
  Snow claims 57 lives in Japan since December
   
  Japan, US to hold talks on US military realignment next week
   
  Death toll rises to 53 in Saudi hostel collapse
   
  Report: Sharon undergoes emergency surgery
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  Related Stories  
   
Governments to get oil-for-food records
   
Indian minister to quit over Iraq scandal - reports
   
Indian envoy reveals role of ex-foreign minister in Iraq oil scam
  News Talk  
  Are the Republicans exploiting the memory of 9/11?  
Manufacturers, Exporters, Wholesalers - Global trade starts here.
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 欧美亚洲国产片在线观看 | 亚洲自拍成人 | 中文字幕在线看 | 一本色道久久综合 | 欧美高清性刺激毛片 | 久久午夜精品视频 | 日韩中文字幕在线观看视频 | 国产毛片a精品毛 | 午夜黄色福利视频 | 亚洲黄色第一页 | 欧美不卡视频在线观看 | 手机看a| 国产精选一区二区 | 一级毛片日韩a欧美 | 亚洲精品一区二区久久 | 欧美日韩国产va另类 | 久免费视频 | 亚洲国产成人久久综合一区77 | 黄色片日本人 | 九九99香蕉在线视频网站 | 亚洲一区 中文字幕 久久 | 91精品国产综合成人 | 久久综合香蕉久久久久久久 | 天堂一区二区三区在线观看 | 欧美精品综合一区二区三区 | 91九九| 久久免费看视频 | 在线国产观看 | 久久香蕉国产精品一区二区三 | 久草免费福利 | 亚洲专区在线视频 | 一级做a爰片久久毛片潮喷 一级做a爰片久久毛片美女 | 91精品免费久久久久久久久 | 99re66热这里只有精品免费观看 | 亚洲欧美日韩视频一区 | 日本三级s级在线播放 | 欧美搞黄视频 | 99pao在线视频成精品 | 国产在线91精品 | 久久两性 | 99在线视频网站 |