Editing Oil-for-Food Programme (section)

===Alleged use for financing of Saddam Hussein regime===
[[Fox News]] broke the story that [[Alexander Yakovlev (diplomat)|Alexander Yakovlev]], a Russian official in the UN Procurement Department, was involved; he later resigned and pleaded guilty to corruption charges. The program was also linked to Ahmed Idris Nasreddin, designated as a terrorist financier by Britain, the US and according to the UN "belonging to or affiliated with [[Al-Qaeda|Al Qaeda]]." Nasreddin was removed from these lists in 2007 after he demonstrated that he had severed all business ties with [[Youssef Nada]], who co-founded the [[Al Taqwa Bank]] with him, and pledged to have no further dealings with either Nada or the bank.<ref>
{{cite web 
|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-28-na-financier28-story.html
|title=When is a terrorism figure no longer one?: In 2002, the U.S. said a businessman was aiding Al Qaeda. Now he's quietly off the blacklist 
|author=Josh Meyer 
|website=Los Angeles Times
|date=28 November 2007
|access-date=6 June 2016
}}
</ref> Petra Navigation Group was a company that was on the blacklist of firms blocked from doing business with the U.S. for sanctions-busting activities designed to help Saddam's regime.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,173039,00.html | publisher=Fox News | title=U.N. Procurement Scandal: Ties to Saddam and Al Qaeda | date=21 October 2005 | access-date=28 March 2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060427081238/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,173039,00.html | archive-date=27 April 2006 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

According to some sources, Saddam provided millions of dollars from the Oil-for-Food program to the [[Mujahedin-e-Khalq]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The United States and Iran: Policy Challenges and Opportunities|author=Jalil Roshandel, Alethia H. Cook|page=78|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor=Amir Moosavi, Narges Bajoghli|title=Debating the Iran-Iraq War in Contemporary Iran|date=18 December 2019 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8vrDDwAAQBAJ&dq=oil-for-food+program+Mujahedin+e-Khalq&pg=PT172|publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]]|isbn=9781351050579 }}</ref>