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AUSTRALIAN ENVOY TO US LOBBIED CONGRESS TO STOP AWB PROBE.
SYDNEY, Feb 1 Asia Pulse - Australia's ambassador to the United States reportedly lobbied Congress to drop a probe into allegations that the AWB (ASX:AWB) paid kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer's office has confirmed that then-US ambassador Michael Thawley met Senator Norm Coleman in September 2004 and "argued strongly" against a US Senate inquiry into the AWB, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
A statement from Mr Downer's office said the Australian government had been very concerned that AWB would be treated unfairly, and had no reason to believe it was behaving anything but properly.
"The government was very concerned that because of the strong campaign by American wheat interests, the US Senate committee would be used by those interests to damage Australia's wheat interests with Iraq," the statement said.
The Senate sub-committee planned an ...
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...Sept 14 Asia Pulse - Disgraced Australian wheat exporter AWB (ASX:AWB) is facing a new class action by victims of crimes perpetrated...lawsuit is the latest in a series of class actions against AWB, found by the Cole inquiry last year to have knowingly...
Source: HighBeam Research, AUSTRALIAN ENVOY TO US LOBBIED CONGRESS TO STOP AWB PROBE.