FORMER DIRECTOR FACES COURT OVER "SADDAM KICK-BACKS"
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UCU has published a briefing on the activities of Navitas. Included in the briefing is the revelation of the activities of a former Navitas director Trevor Flugge. Mr Flugge resigned his directorship on 28 November 2006 amid allegations of supplying kickbacks to the Saddam Hussein regime through the UN Oil-for-Food programme. As the UCU briefing continues:
“It was alleged that as chairman of the Australian Wheat Board, Trevor Flugge had secured lucrative contracts for Australian agriculture in Iraq through kickbacks via the Oil-for-Food Programme. Flugge was called before the Cole Inquiry [set-up to look at these allegations] in Australia and stepped down from his directorship of IBT at the same time. At the time the company said if there was no wrongdoing, Flugge would resume his position. He never did.”
Indeed Flugge and a number of his former colleagues at the AWB are now facing a court case launched by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission, over these allegations.
“It was alleged that as chairman of the Australian Wheat Board, Trevor Flugge had secured lucrative contracts for Australian agriculture in Iraq through kickbacks via the Oil-for-Food Programme. Flugge was called before the Cole Inquiry [set-up to look at these allegations] in Australia and stepped down from his directorship of IBT at the same time. At the time the company said if there was no wrongdoing, Flugge would resume his position. He never did.”
Indeed Flugge and a number of his former colleagues at the AWB are now facing a court case launched by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission, over these allegations.
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