When the UN accuses …

When the UN accuses you of corruption, that’s pretty sad.

THE controversial MP George Galloway and one of Scotland’s leading companies were last night facing the threat of prosecution after they were named in a devastating United Nations report into the Iraq oil-for-food scandal.

The report identified Mr Galloway as a political beneficiary of the oil-for-food programme and concluded that thousands of pounds from companies involved in oil deals with Saddam Hussein’s regime were paid into the Mariam Appeal which Mr Galloway chaired and which funded his anti-sanctions campaigning.

It accused the Glasgow-based engineering company Weir Group of paying $4.5 million in kickbacks to Saddam’s regime in return for contracts, and of refusing to co-operate with the inquiry.

Galloway was the face and the voice of the anti-war movement in the UK. Keep that in mind as this charge is prosecuted. Perhaps he had a good reason for not wanting Hussein removed from power.

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