* Paul Volker : FoxNews tonight reported that no less a personage than Paul Volker, former Federal Reserve chief, who heads the entire investigation of the U.N. for the U.N., has major league ties to TotalFinaELF, the French oil company which handled the illegal oil transfers, and Bank Paribas, the French bank which laundered billions of Saddam dollars. Paging Senator Coleman!3 posted on 02/01/2005 8:18:31 PM PST by montag813
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Some other folks have been digging:
.... Bear in mind that the focus of this story started with TotalFinaElf who had options to develop the massive Majnoon and Bin Umar oilfields in southern Iraq. I followed the money back to Canada to Power Corporation who has deep connections at highest levels of the UN and then on to China through Mr. Li Ka-Shing, the worlds 19th richest man. France is still a major player in its attempts to harm the US and continues to position itself as a world leader in a new era, one without the USA as a superpower. .....
Power Corporation holds the controlling stock of TOTAL otherwise known as TotalFinaElf. I’m providing a Timeline of the more significant events of the company to provide some background. Power Corp’s founding father, Paul Desmarais, is a major shareholder and director of TotalFinaElf, the biggest oil corporation in France, which has held tens of billions of dollars in contracts with the deposed regime of Saddam Hussein. Both Prime Minister Paul Martin and his mentor Maurice Strong, senior advisor to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, each have worked for Power Corp. Martin’s immediate predecessor is former Prime Minister Jean Chretien, whose daughter, France is married to Andre Desmarais, Paul Desmarais Sr., son. .......
.....Power Corp., through its ties to the New York branch of the Banque Nationale de Paris-Paribas, or BNP Paribas is also linked to the UN oil-for-food scandal. BNP Paribas was the sole bank for administering the $64 billion oil-for-food program and did not have adequate checks on whether money was being funneled to terrorists, a House International Relations Committee probe found in November 2004. Committee investigators have uncovered evidence that BNP Paribas made payments without proof that goods were delivered and sanctioned payments to third parties not identified as authorized recipients......
TotalFinaElf is now working with the Iranians. They are operating under contracts to help develop the South Pars gas field. They are the Iranian portions of what is probably the largest gas field in the world. The other part of the field, in Qatari waters, is known as North Field. With the South Pars project, TotalFinaElf has become the foremost oil company in partnership with Iran and has bolstered its position in the Middle East, where the Group has been active for some 75 years. -------Expanding the French Connection Self ^ | Friday, November 04, 2005 | Paperjam
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[snip]...In 1987 Galloway became MP for Glasgow Hillhead, beating the late Roy Jenkins for the seat. He had separated from his wife after admissions of infidelity and subsequently met and married Amineh Abu Zayyad, a Palestinian scientist....Galloway’s next business venture involved a publishing company, Asian Voice, that he co-founded in 1996. It emerged last week that the firm’s auditor Morley & Scott later discovered that it could not properly account for £49,842 in Asian Voice spending. Galloway was a director during the period under scrutiny. Staff at East, the company’s newspaper, recalled last week how Galloway relished the role of media baron. He would draw up outside the newspaper offices in his Mercedes with a thick Cuban cigar clamped between his teeth. He once admitted to having become a “Bollinger Bolshevik”. It was later alleged that Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani prime minister who had previously hosted Galloway in Islamabad, had tried to use East as a mouthpiece and had channelled £135,000 through the company. Galloway denied improperly accepting any Bhutto cash or breaching parliamentary rules. ......After resigning from Asian Voice, the Jerusalem Cigarette Company and the Palestine Liberation Organisation were among the groups that paid for his trips abroad. Then the Mariam Appeal, founded in early 1998, provided Galloway with a new source of funding for his overseas visits. The declared aim of the appeal was to raise funds to treat Mariam Hamza, a four-year-old Iraqi girl suffering from leukaemia. ......-----TimesOnline UKhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-525-659858-525,00.html