¿QUÉ, CÓMO VA LA RESACA? Seguro que en el peor de los casos será mejor que la de los implicados en el fraude en el programa Petróleo por Alimentos. Van saliendo más cosas; además de una fuente de sobornos y estafas varias en los productos intercambiados por el oro negro, el programa era un gigantesco sistema de lavado de dinero:

The already controversial U.N. Oil-for-Food (search) program may also have been a vast international money-laundering scheme involving potentially hundreds of millions of dollars, documents reviewed by FOX News suggest.

Bank records obtained by a congressional panel investigating the Oil-for-Food program raise questions about the role of French bank BNP Paribas as well as the actions of United Nations officials given the task of administering the program.

Those documents reveal that during the summer of 2003, federal regulators investigated 80 BNP wire transfers and found indications of money laundering in three of them involving $9 million dollars.

Because BNP carried out an estimated 50,000 transfers for the Oil-for-Food program, the amount of money under congressional scrutiny could reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars.