An Iraqi-born British billionaire, reputedly Britain’s seventh-richest man, is one of 37 company administrators and business partners accused of involvement in France’s biggest post-war financial scandal in which the oil firm, now TotalFinaElf, allegedly paid out huge bribes and backhanders to expand its empire.
Negotiations about about a possible alliance between Saddam Hussein’s regime and al-Qaeda took place in 1998, according to documents found in Baghdad by a British newspaper.