AWB scam charges likely for Stott
Leonie Wood; 31/7/08
The oil-for-food taskforce has told a former senior AWB executive, Charles Stott, that he may face criminal charges over his role in the wheat exporter’s $300 million Iraqi kickbacks scandal. Mr Stott, who headed AWB’s international sales and marketing operations from 2001 until 2006, learnt about the likelihood of criminal charges during a meeting with the taskforce on July 14. The taskforce’s leader, Commander Peter Donaldson, and Superintendent Lester Cross of the Australian Federal Police told Mr Stott’s lawyers that they plan to hand a brief recommending criminal charges to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions within months. Mr Stott was one of 12 people, including 11 former AWB senior managers, who were cited for further investigation by the Cole inquiry’s commissioner, Terence Cole, QC, who found the 12 may have breached criminal laws when they engineered secret payments to a tracking company associated with the corrupt Saddam Hussein regime between 1999 and 2004.
See: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/awb-scam-charges-likely-for-stott/2008/07/30/1217097339069.html
Tags: Australia, Corruption, Terrorism