http://www.theage.com.au/business/day-i ... -h2w3.htmlONE of the biggest and most high-profile commercial cases Australia has seen in years will begin this morning in the Victorian Supreme Court as Andrew Lindberg, the former boss of AWB, defends allegations about his role in allowing the wheat exporter to pay $300 million of illicit kickbacks to Iraq.
Over the next few months, Justice Ross Robson will hear details of AWB's secret payments from a cast of witnesses, including several former AWB managers involved in the Iraq wheat trade, at least two former AWB directors, officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and a New York-based official of the United Nations oil-for-food program.
If only the people who let this country down to the tune of $300m paid to a dictator were in court: Howard, Downer, Vaile.
