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October 14, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1824684,00.html

French Envoys Admit Taking Oil Payoffs

(Times-UK) Charles Bremner - Two former French ambassadors have admitted earning hundreds of thousands of dollars from the sale of oil that Iraq had assigned to them under the UN Oil-for-Food program. The disclosure tarnished France's moral stand against the invasion of Iraq, and its Foreign Ministry scrambled to distance itself from the alleged illicit activities of Serge Boidevaix, a former director of the ministry, and of Jean-Bernard Merimee, a former French Ambassador to the UN. Both are facing corruption charges.

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