Editing Oil-for-Food Programme (section)

===Alleged involvement of Russian intelligence===
According to high-ranking Russian [[Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia)|SVR]] defector [[Sergei Tretyakov (intelligence officer)|Sergei Tretyakov]], the Oil-for-Food Programme was sabotaged by an undercover Russian intelligence officer, Alexander Kramar, a UN employee who set up the artificially low oil prices in 1998 to allow Saddam to use the oil vouchers as lucrative bribes. The difference between the market price and the price defined by Kramar was pocketed by people who received the vouchers from Saddam. Among the bribed were top officials from Russia, France, and China.<ref name="Comrade J">Pete Earley, "Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War", Penguin Books, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-399-15439-3}}, pages 210–223.</ref> The biggest part of vouchers (to buy {{convert|1366|Goilbbl|m3}} of oil) went to forty-six individuals or organizations in Russia, including the [[Russian Orthodox Church]].{{citation needed|date=June 2016}} They pocketed $476 million.<ref name="Comrade J"/> Among Russians who received the money were [[Alexander Voloshin]] and [[Vladimir Zhirinovsky]]. Sergei Isakov, a friend of Voloshin, carried "bags with money" from Moscow to Baghdad taking the "earned" money as kickbacks to Saddam.<ref name="Comrade J"/>