UK Charges Oil Traders With Illegal Payments to Saddam-Era Iraq

摘要

The UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has charged two British oil traders with making illegal payments to Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization (Somo) during the UN-administered oil-for-food program in Iraq that ran from 1996 to 2003. Aftab al-Hassan, 65, and Riad al-Taher, 70, have separately appeared in a London magistrates court to hear the charges; neither has entered a plea. If found guilty, they could face several years in prison.