Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Canada’s Agrium on Monday launched a A$1.2bn ($1.1bn) offer for AWB, the Melbourne-based wheat trader, topping ...

A former AWB manager was accused of reaping $US16 million ($21.3 million) in bribes from a shipping company that transported Australian wheat to Iraq. Details of the ...

ELEVEN former executives of wheat exporter AWB could face criminal charges and jail terms of up to 10 years after the Cole inquiry found they had engaged in an elaborate deception that illegally ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Baghdad news every morning. John Howard, Australia’s prime minister, yesterday said AWB, the wheat exporter, had agreed to give up ...

In the early 2000s, AWB became embroiled in a kickbacks for wheat scandal with the government of former Iraqi dictator Suddam Hussein. The revelations brought down a lucrative monopoly and saw a ...

1996, Food-for-oil program established 1997 to March 2003: AWB sold 12 million tonnes of grain worth $3 billion under the oil-for-food program between 1997 and the invasion of Iraq by coalition troops ...

US Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said today AWB and its affiliates, as well as 11 of its former employees, could be barred indefinitely from US government programs after further investigations.

In 2005 the United Nations oil-for-food scandal made international headlines and destroyed Australia's monopoly wheat export system — known as the single desk. Loading... At the heart of the scandal ...