After Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990, it was strongly condemned by the United Nations and the international community, and for many years since then, the United Nations has imposed economic sanctions against Iraq, including the oil embargo. The Iraqi people live a life of hell.
However, this did not have much impact on the Saddam family, who still lived a life of poverty and luxury, living in heaven, and not only that, they were also secretly carrying out wealth-gathering activities. However, no one knows exactly how saddam's family made their fortunes.
It wasn't until a Russian businessman denounced it that Saddam's black money deal gradually surfaced.
At the beginning of 2001, russian businessman Gazi. Lügev is traveling in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. Although Iraq is in turmoil, the beautiful scenery and cultural landscape make him temporarily forget about those dangers.
Suddenly, someone came to Lugev and said that there was a big deal to be made, but when he heard the other party's coming, he couldn't help but shiver - Saddam's eldest son, Uday.
This Uday was notorious, brutal and bloody, reckless, adulterous and plundering, and did no evil.
When Uday was the head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee, he often tortured athletes. If the athletes fail to achieve the results of Udai, they will be thrown into prison, tortured on their legs, backs, etc., and even dragged the athletes to the road until their flesh and blood are blurred. Many athletes fled, and the development of sports in Iraq was at a standstill.
Uday likes women and forcibly takes them away as soon as he sees them. Once, an Iraqi officer was holding a wedding, and unfortunately Uday took a fancy to the bride and staged a "kiss snatching". The bride was humiliated and ended her life on the best day of her life.
On important occasions, Uday also beat Saddam's favorite courtiers and beat others to their knees and begged for forgiveness, but he shot people for their lives.
Another time, at a dance party held by an uncle, Uday lost his mind because of drinking numbness, picked up a submachine gun and shot at the crowd, killing several people on the spot, even his uncle was shot in the leg and had to be amputated. ......
There are so many evils in Ude that Iraqis are terrified.
When he heard that Udai was going to do business with himself, Lügev broke out in a cold sweat. However, the mercenary nature of the merchant made him want to meet the evil son of Saddam Hussein for a while.
Uday set the time for the consultation at 3 a.m., at his mansion in Baghdad.
This made Lü Gev even more uneasy, feeling that he wanted the sheep to enter the mouth of the tiger and be slaughtered. However, he thought for a moment, "rich and noble in danger", if you can really make a big deal with Udai, then it will not make a lot of money?
Lügev was a shrewd Russian businessman who ran a factory specializing in bottling Russian Roulette vodka, which of course was only a superficial business, and he also had a lot of influence in the underground spirits industry. He once helped the city government clean up a chaotic food mall, and its toughness and shrewdness are known locally.
But at this time, Lügev's others were on The territory of Iraq, and even if he had a hundred who did not want to deal with Udai, there was no way, he had to go to the appointment, otherwise, whether he could return to Russia was still unknown.
Lügev arrived at the appointment on time and walked into the mansion of Udai, as if walking into a royal palace, magnificent, and everywhere was permeated with the smell of money. There is no doubt that Lügev also likes this taste.
Uday looked at the "unseen" Russian, with a proud face, enthusiastically took him on a tour of his palace, constantly showing off his collection: expensive sports cars, Koniac brandy, Cuban cigars... In order to appear to be a "grounded" person, he spoke of a fascination with a candy.
Flaunting wealth is almost over, and Udai cuts to the point: how to make Lü gev quickly get rich.
Udai said: The Iraqi government can sign a contract with Lügev to sell him a large amount of oil at a lower price than the market, and then Lügev will sell it to the big oil companies at a high price, thus making money on the difference.
Udai particularly stressed that the entire transaction was carried out under the "oil for food" bill and was completely legal.
What exactly is "oil for food"?
The cause was the sanctions imposed by the international community on Iraq following its invasion of Kuwait, including the oil embargo. Before the outbreak of the Gulf War, more than 90% of Iraq's foreign exchange earnings came from oil exports, and all kinds of manufactured goods, foodstuffs and pharmaceuticals had to rely on imports.
Iraq has been sanctioned for 6 years, the domestic economy is basically paralyzed, inflation is serious, the unemployed population has soared, food, medicine, etc. are extremely scarce, more than 730,000 Iraqis have died, and the mortality rate under 5 years old is 8 times higher than before the sanctions. Iraqis live in hell.
To alleviate the suffering of Iraqis caused by economic sanctions, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution in April 1995 allowing Iraq to export limited oil in exchange for food, medicine and other civilian goods, known as "oil for food".
After several days of deliberations, the Government of Iraq agreed to the "oil for food" resolution on 20 May 1996.
There were several points in the resolution: Iraq exported $2 billion worth of oil in half a year;
Any food and equipment that Needs to be Purchased in Iraq must be approved by the United Nations and any shipment must be inspected before it enters the country.
Judging from the "oil for food" resolution, under strict supervision, Saddam Hussein simply cannot benefit from it, but has to honestly trade with oil companies in demand, and the price of oil is lower than the market price.
However, Saddam Hussein is an old jianghu, and he has long been calculating the interests behind the "oil for food". Because Saddam Hussein is free to choose the company he works with, there are huge interests involved behind it, and he can work with companies that are willing to give him kickbacks.
Although Uday repeatedly stressed the legitimacy of the transaction, but Lügev is not a person who has just come out of the mix, how can it be so naïve, the bloodthirsty Saddam family will let him make a lot of money in vain?
Sure enough, Uday offered a condition for Lügev to deposit the oil money in a Bank controlled by the United Nations in the name of relief for the hungry children of Iraq. Uday also said with a deep face, "We need to help those poor children." ”
Lügev smiled, some words just listened, what they wanted was a kickback.
Iraqi officials told Mr. Lugev that he needed to secretly deposit $60,000 into Udeh's bank term account in Jordan as a fuel freight. One official said: "This is the rule of the game. "Because everyone who buys oil from Iraq has to pay a similar deposit."
Lügev knew that in order to get rich, he had to pay the "admission ticket" first. 60,000 US dollars, more said, less said a lot, but as long as you enter Saddam Hussein's circle, you get N 60,000 US dollars.
Lugev happily paid $60,000, left the Uday mansion refreshed, and returned home happily, waiting for news from Iraq. He waited, waited, did not receive any news, a little discouraged, and then contacted an Iraqi official and learned that the schedule of the ship had been postponed.
Well, make a lot of money can't remember, just wait.
Lügev waited for a while, waiting for the news of the postponement. He was impatient to wait, so he complained a few words.
Who knows, the arrogant and stupid boy of Udai actually canceled the entire contract in one fell swoop, and also played a rogue and embezzled 60,000 US dollars from Lü Gev.
Lü gev's lungs exploded, and he was not only teased by Udai, but also folded 60,000 US dollars. The more I think about it, the more angry I am, and the members of the fighting nation can bear this nest of qi. Since Saddam Hussein's government dares to bully people like this, it must also make them look good, and it is a big deal that the fish is dead and the net is broken, and he is not afraid to wear shoes barefoot.
Lügev made a decision that shocked the world: to denounce Saddam Hussein's government.
Lügev was interviewed by Newsweek in the United States, made a formal complaint against Saddam Hussein's government, and also confided in his underground transactions in Baghdad, and the world was shocked.
Although, for a long time, Saddam Hussein used the "oil for food" bill to extract huge oil and water, which became an open secret. Data show that Saddam has received at least $2.3 billion in kickbacks since 1997, and the C.I.A. is convinced that Saddam hussein used the money to develop his large-scale weapons and equipment program. However, all this is speculation, and there has been no conclusive evidence to prove it.
Whether Lügev was heroic or stupid, the whistleblowing had happened anyway, and Saddam's black money deal had gradually surfaced.
The United Nations Security Council was shocked and began to investigate.
It turned out that it was precisely because the oil-for-food bill stipulated that Iraq was sold at a much lower price than the market price that Saddam Hussein had a chance to drill, because companies that wanted to buy oil could afford to pay more kickbacks. Saddam Himself prefers companies that can pay 30%-50% of profits. Rebates don't come entirely in cash, such as a company that gave Uday a $440,000 Rolls-Royce and an oversized yellow diamond.
These kickbacks that Saddam Hussein got, after all, are black money, how to wash white?
Since 1996, Saddam Hussein has sold $50 billion worth of oil through the Oil for Food Act and bought $25 billion worth of equipment under humanitarian guise. In the process, Saddam Hussein's government founded businessmen like Lügev and set up a new batch of oil companies, in fact, leather bag companies, through which money was deposited into banks in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, which had a system of secrecy, making it difficult to find out who were behind the companies and where the money was flowing.
At the same time, Saddam Hussein also used the "oil for food" bill to successfully smuggle a large number of embargoed industrial and military equipment.
So are UN officials really unaware of all saddam's actions?
Saddam Hussein, in order to get his plan to run smoothly, of course, bribed Unispiritus officials, and the most crucial figure he bought was the head of the "oil-for-food" program, Benon. Sevan.
In 1965, Sevan entered the United Nations Secretariat and, after decades of hard work, went from an ordinary clerk to a senior United Nations official, and he worked with Kofi. Annan is a good friend.
In 1997, United Nations Secretary-General Annan appointed Sevan as Executive Director of the United Nations Office for The Iraq Project, including overseeing the implementation of the "oil-for-food" project.
However, Sevan took advantage of his position to demand quotas of millions of barrels of crude oil from Saddam Hussein's government in the name of Africa And middle east oil company company from 1998 to 2001. Every time AFRO oil was contracted, Sevan would go to the bank to deposit a variety of dollars, accumulating $147,000 over several years.
In addition, Annan's son Kojo. Annan was also once involved in the "oil for food" scandal.
Saddam Hussein's black money deal, the Clinton administration just turned a blind eye, and after Bush took office, he did not take tough measures until after the "9/11" incident, the United States finally persuaded the United Nations to adopt a new policy and re-price Iraq's oil. In this way, Saddam Hussein receives fewer and fewer discounts.
But even so, after years of accumulating wealth, Saddam's bank wealth is a huge number.
Russian businessman Gazi. Lügev denounced Saddam Hussein for his own selfishness, exposing Saddam's black money transaction, which is not noble, but the butterfly effect he brought was huge.
Whether it's Saddam Hussein, Uday, or UN officials like Sevan, they are all vampires, and ultimately the common Iraqi people are suffering.