The Australian investigation into that country's involvement with the U.N. Oil-For-Food scandal is a model of transparency and accountability, at least when compared to the U.N.'s own inquiry. The Australian Wheat Board is alleged to have paid $220 million in kickbacks to the Saddam regime for the privilege of being a supplier of food under the program. The Cole Report included in its findings the recommendation that 12 people be criminally prosecuted for their roles in the scam. That would be about a dozen more people than were prosecuted as a result of Paul Volcker's official U.N. investigation into the entirety of the multi-billion dollar Oil-For-Food heist. Claudia Rosett reports.
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