January 30, 2004
(To answer an earlier question, ABC states the list is composed of people who bought oil at a discounted price and then resold it to legitimate brokers or oil companies.)
What's important to me, not surprisingly, are the background of the 2 Americans on the list, so seeing the one googlable (ha!) name, Samir Vincent, was someone who has worked to get the sanctions lifted wasn't a surprise, but seeing his connection to Empower America was the last thing I would have expected.
This is the list provided by ABC:
RussiaDoes anyone else find this list depressing? There's always a part of me that wants to be wrong about how cynically corrupt some of these yahoos are.
The Companies of the Russian Communist Party: 137 million
The Companies of the Liberal Democratic Party: 79.8 million
The Russian Committee for Solidarity with Iraq: 6.5 million and 12.5 million (2 separate contracts)
Head of the Russian Presidential Cabinet: 90 million
The Russian Orthodox Church: 5 million
France
Charles Pasqua, former minister of interior: 12 million
Trafigura (Patrick Maugein), businessman: 25 million
Ibex: 47.2 million
Bernard Merimee, former French ambassador to the United Nations: 3 million
Michel Grimard, founder of the French-Iraqi Export Club: 17.1 millionSyria
Firas Mostafa Tlass, son of Syria's defense minister: 6 millionTurkey
Zeynel Abidin Erdem: more than 27 million
Lotfy Doghan: more than 11 millionIndonesia
Megawati Sukarnoputri: 11 millionSpain
Ali Ballout, Lebanese journalist: 8.8 millionYugoslavia
The Socialist Party: 22 million
Kostunica's Party: 6 millionCanada
Arthur Millholland, president and CEO of Oilexco: 9.5 millionItaly
Father Benjamin, a French Catholic priest who arranged a meeting between the pope and Tariq Aziz: 4.5 million
Roberto Frimigoni: 24.5 millionUnited States
Samir Vincent: 7 million
Shakir Alkhalaji: 10.5 millionUnited Kingdom
George Galloway, member of Parliament: 19 million
Mujaheddin Khalq: 36.5 millionSouth Africa
Tokyo Saxwale: 4 millionJordan
Shaker bin Zaid: 6.5 million
The Jordanian Ministry of Energy: 5 million
Fawaz Zureikat: 6 million
Toujan Al Faisal, former member of Parliament: 3 millionLebanon
The son of President Lahoud: 5.5 millionEgypt
Khaled Abdel Nasser: 16.5 million
Emad Al Galda, businessman and Parliament member: 14 millionPalestinian Territories
The Palestinian Liberation Organization: 4 million
Abu Al Abbas: 11.5 millionQatar
Hamad bin Ali Al Thany: 14 millionLibya
Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem: 1 millionChad
Foreign minister of Chad: 3 millionBrazil
The October 8th Movement: 4.5 millionMyanmar (Burma)
The minister of the Forests of Myanmar: 5 millionUkraine
The Social Democratic Party: 8.5 million
The Communist Party: 6 million
The Socialist Party: 2 million
The FTD oil company: 2 million
(Via Instapundit.)
UPDATE: JunkYard Dog analyzes the ABC report and comes up with confirmation and more informtion about how the pay-offs worked.
UPDATE: M'kay, the Washington Times might be overstating here (charge of corruption against Chirac) but whatever will they say about this: Ex-French PM Alain Juppe guilty of corruption and more indepth from the NY Times here. Mitterand, d'Estaing . . . I guess it's that law that forbids charges being levied while the official is in office that proves how enlightened the Europeans are compared to us rubes.
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