Oil-for-food scandal uproar sparks fierce denials
The UN’s report on the oil-for-food programme for Saddam Hussein’s Iraq drew widespread denials, terse dismissals and protestations of innocence yesterday, but also pledges to investigate from some of the 2,200 companies cited and countries with citizens named.
Russian officials angrily alleged that documents accusing companies and officials in that country were fake and the head of the nation’s electricity monopoly called for the report’s writers to be punished.
