AWB lawyer denies ignoring ethics
Senior AWB lawyer Jessica Lyons has told the oil-for-food inquiry she did not put her legal ethics aside to work out how to circumvent UN sanctions.
Ms Lyons received outside legal advice that a lump sum payment would breach UN sanctions. She told AWB executives they could pay over time as long as it was to a company outside Iraq, and they could also get a deal for more wheat sales.
Commissioner Terence Cole says the advice reads as, "We can't pay, here's a way of getting around sanctions on Iraq, and an argument that we're not paying Iraq".
[The Iraqi Grains Board wanted $US2.2 million as compensation for alleged wheat contamination.
The inquiry is investigation $290 million worth of kickbacks paid by AWB to the regime of Saddam Hussein.]
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