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INDEPENDENT INQUIRY COMMITTEE INTO THE UNITED NATIONS OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAMME REPORT ON PROGRAMME MANIPULATION CHAPTER TWO OIL TRANSACTIONS AND ILLICIT PAYMENTS nor Giles [sic] Chautard at Vitol who communicated with Ms. Na’ana, knowingly ‘caused’ Ms. Na’ana to pay such surcharges and did not tell her to do so.” 342 4. Vitol Bahrain’s Direct Surcharge Payment Vitol made a direct surcharge payment to SOMO’s account at Jordan National Bank with respect to oil that Vitol had lifted through Machinoimport, a Russian company. In Phase XI, Vitol financed two lifts of oil totaling over one million barrels that were sold by SOMO to Machinoimport. The oil was lifted by Vitol, respectively, on December 31, 2001 and January 1, 2002. Ministry of Oil records show that surcharges amounting to $312,801 were levied on these two lifts. Bank records evidence that two weeks after the lifts, Vitol Bahrain E.C., the Vitol entity that financed the purchase of Iraqi crude oil, wire transferred $312,786.30 from its account at JPMorgan Chase London to a SOMO account at Jordan National Bank Amman. Ministry of Oil records reflect that Vitol’s payment was used to satisfy Machinoimport’s surcharge obligations under contract M/11/17. 343 A copy of the SWIFT message detailing the transfer from Vitol Bahrain’s account at JPMorgan Chase London to SOMO’s account at Jordan National Bank is shown below. 342 Confidential witness interview; Vitol letter to the Committee (Oct. 20, 2005). 343 Committee oil financier, company, and surcharge tables, contract no. M/11/17 (contracting with Machinoimport); SOMO bills of lading, ck/5128 (Part 2) A (Dec. 31, 2001), ck/5128 (Part 2) B (Jan. 1, 2002) (both relating to M/11/17); Records of SOMO surcharge invoices (Dec. 13, 2001), (Jan. 1, 2002) (each translated from Arabic); Jordan National Bank record, SOMO account, credit advice (Jan. 17, 2002) (translated from Arabic) and SWIFT message (Jan. 15, 2002). REPORT ON PROGRAMME MANIPULATION–OCTOBER 27, 2005 PAGE 170 OF 623
INDEPENDENT INQUIRY COMMITTEE INTO THE UNITED NATIONS OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAMME REPORT ON PROGRAMME MANIPULATION CHAPTER TWO OIL TRANSACTIONS AND ILLICIT PAYMENTS Figure: Jordan National Bank record, SOMO account, SWIFT message (Jan. 15, 2002). F. COASTAL PETROLEUM COMPANY American oil trader, Oscar Wyatt, a longtime and loyal oil customer of Iraq, was a rare exception to the Government of Iraq’s ban on allocating oil to companies and individuals from the United States after the initial phases. In the first eight phases of the Programme, Mr. Wyatt’s company, Coastal Petroleum, purchased Iraqi crude oil allocated under its company name. According to Iraqi officials, after surcharges were imposed, Mr. Wyatt requested that the oil be allocated in his own name not Coastal Petroleum’s. Mr. Wyatt then used two other companies, Nafta Petroleum and Mednafta Trading Co., to purchase the 26 million barrels of oil allocated in his name. 344 344 Iraq official interview; Committee oil company table, contract nos. M/08/72, M/09/28, M/10/13, M/11/55. REPORT ON PROGRAMME MANIPULATION–OCTOBER 27, 2005 PAGE 171 OF 623
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