Clinton-pardoned
fugitive billionaire Marc Rich has turned up in the middle of the
United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal, with his name on a roster of
companies authorized to participate in the corruption-plagued
arrangement.
"One of Marc
Rich's companies was on the United Nations list that was approved to
trade and transport Iraqi oil," Fox News Channel's Eric Shawn reported
Tuesday.
"And it appears
that Mr. Rich's firm, Marc Rich & Co. Investments AG, may well have
been given that approval by the U.N. before the presidential pardon,"
Shawn added.
That means the
U.N. was ready to do business with America's
most-wanted white collar criminal, while other program participants
were busily stuffing their pockets with Saddam Hussein's kickbacks.
Thomas Frutig, CEO
of Marc Rich Holdings, denied the allegation, telling Fox, "We were
not involved in the Oil-for-Food program."
But in the next
breath he added, "Every oil company which wasn't trading applied for
an authorization to trade, but I can't tell you how much we did, or
whether we did anything."
Rich had
previously gotten into trouble over allegations that he traded oil
with Iran at a time when Tehran was on the U.S. embargo list as a
state sponsor of terrorism.
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