A great investigative documentary on one of the most scandalous corruption cases of our time, perpetrated at the expense of a humanitarian program set up by the United Nations.
"Oil for food" is the name of a program initiated by the United Nations in 1996, which aimed to meet the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi population under embargo since the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. It was to enable the Iraq to sell a limited amount of its oil, under UN control, and to buy food and medicine in return. For nearly seven years, "Oil for Food" will brew nearly $ 100 billion. In January 2004, an Iraqi daily published a list of personalities and companies having received bribes as part of this humanitarian operation. The scandal breaks out.
The United Nations discreetly set up an independent commission of inquiry, chaired by Paul Volcker, which produced an edifying report in 2005, accusing nearly 2 individuals and international companies in around 500 countries. Since then, very few trials have taken place and indictments are just as rare ...
State smuggling
In a confined world where ambassadors, former intelligence agents, journalists, UN officials, lawyers, businessmen, politicians and Iraqi doctors meet, one of the biggest corruption cases in modern history has been played out. . A matter that, however, the whole world very quickly forgot. From Dubai to Geneva via Amman, Paris and New York, the directors go back one by one all the stages which allowed this gigantic oil smuggling. With the help of unpublished documents, archives and testimonies of direct actors, they reconstruct with precision what must be properly called looting, the main victim of which has been the Iraqi people.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 20:45 PM
repeats:
12.03.2009 to 09: 55
13.03.2009 to 03: 00
23.03.2009 to 03: 00
30.03.2009 to 01: 05
http://www.arte.tv/fr/semaine/244,broad ... =2009.html
