Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Fed: Cole calls for MPs to come forward with AWB evidence


AAP General News (Australia)
02-21-2006
Fed: Cole calls for MPs to come forward with AWB evidence

SYDNEY, Feb 21 AAP - The commissioner investigating AWB's kickbacks to Iraq has called
on federal MPs, including government ministers, to come forward with any information they
have about the government's knowledge of the illicit payments.

Terence Cole, QC, who heads the commission of inquiry into $300 million in kickbacks
the wheat exporter paid to dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, has issued a public invitation
to MPs and public servants to give any information they have to his team of investigators.

"I am extending a specific invitation …