Iraq oil-for-food kickbacks ‘higher than suspected’
The Telegraph reports kickbacks paid to Saddam Hussein’s regime on contracts signed under the United Nations’ oil-for-food programme were far higher than the 10 per cent rake-off previously assumed.

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