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Director of company "total": I am not aware of the corruption of the oil-for-food programme
Created on: Thursday, 06 February 2013 09: 13. | |
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The Chairman of the group said France's total Christophe de Margery good intentions before the judge who judged with some 20 other defendants in connection with the "oil for food".
And by other staff in total of cadres and mediators before the Court in this case continued until 20 February.
Agence France Presse quoted de Margery, as saying in court Tuesday: "I did not know that the program is" embezzlement ". Wemargeri was in the "oil for food" branch manager of the Middle East section of the total exploration and depreciation. It supplements on charges of participating in the exploitation of company property, and taken it liaise with broker called Elias ferzli died, it turned out that he was involved in the marketing of illegal shipments of Iraqi oil.
These shipments were "gifts" of barrels of oil by late President Saddam Hussein's regime to the characters "friend" in violation of the oil-for-food program, which was introduced in 1996. This program is approved to ease the embargo imposed on Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Baghdad was allowed to sell limited quantities under u.n. supervision to buy humanitarian goods.
And prosecuted a large number of total staff, past and present, in this case and would deliver them until early next week. And most of the figures after they received from the late Iraqi President "giveaways" to oil drums for their efforts to lift the embargo imposed on Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
Du said Margery (61 years) the Court that he was not aware of this giveaway and not fake firms used to pay the fees associated with these processes.
Ferzli said that he had known since 1994 that "my rights" Lebanese belongs to one of the lobbyists, working for total, came to tell him he can get oil drums. "As this was legal I had no reason to reject."
According to the minutes of the accusation that the French group was ready to do all of the exercises possible for Iraqi crude oil to refineries. Du said Margery "definitely generated total in Iraq in 1924 and worked for a long time thanks to this oil. But from 1991 to 1996, a period of strict prohibition on Iraq Group abandon this country.
"Different types of ore is processed in our refineries to avoid being hostage to this country or that product." "To say we need Iraqi oil at any price is exaggerated".
Unlike oil groups from other countries "do not manipulate the total ban," said de Margery supplements also charged with participating in the exploitation of social property. At the beginning of the interrogation, provided information on his personal situation and income, adding that the total monthly salary reached 111 thousand euros to share related to the company's performance.
Since January 21, appeared in court about 10 suspects from outside France. Some have admitted to violating the ban on Iraq for ideological or commercial reasons while others acknowledged they paid or received kickbacks, but not bad faith.
But others, including former French Interior Minister denied paying any commissions and judicial problems in the hands of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or shabby politics.
Another form of misappropriation of funds in the framework of easing this represents an additional amount requested by Baghdad who buy oil by the advertised price at the United Nations. If Iraq Gets the difference in price by middlemen and fake companies.
And the total is accused of paying the extra and buy oil shipments through the intermediary companies, personalities that "endowed" barrels.
An independent Committee headed by Paul Volker revealed in detail in the 2005 fraud within the framework of the "oil for food". Some have accused 2,200 companies in 66 countries, particularly in France, Russia and China.
These meetings, which began Monday and is supposed to continue until February 20, the first in France. But prosecutors requested the assignment of 14 companies to court on charges of "corrupting foreign officials."
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