Wednesday, October 06, 2004
More on the Money Trail....
Russian government officials, political parties and companies were "allocated" millions of barrels of oil by Saddam Hussein's regime and made millions of dollars in profits from negotiating their sale, according to a leaked Iraqi Governing Council report obtained by The Moscow Times.
Alexander Voloshin, chief of staff under former President Boris Yeltsin and until last October under President Vladimir Putin, made hundreds of thousands of dollars from Iraqi oil, according to an appendix to the report on the role of Russian companies.
The Communist Party, the Liberal Democratic Party and, indirectly, the pro-Kremlin Unity Party made profits in the millions of dollars, the document said.
About 20 Russian oil companies are also included on the list as having made huge profits from allocations.
