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  • Zhirinovsky named in oil-for-food scandal

    12/01/2004 6:15:18 AM PST · by NativeNewYorker · 6 replies · 918+ views
    upi via email no url | 12/1/4
    LONDON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Two European newspapers claimed to have evidence Wednesday Russian ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky profited from the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq. The Financial Times and Italy's Il Sole 24 Ore conducted an investigation and claim to have documentary evidence former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein personally did business at least twice with Zhirinovsky. They tracked movements of two oil shipments through Zhirinovsky to the Russian oil company Tyumen, and also the Houston-based Bayoil. Under the U.N. plan, Iraq's oil exports were to be strictly controlled and used in exchange for food as the country was living under...