Sydney Morning Herald - A FORMER chief executive for Australia's wheat exporter, AWB Ltd, has drawn the Federal Government directly into the Iraq oil-for-food scandal, saying he could recall his staff travelling to Canberra to discuss contracts with Saddam Hussein's regime that included multimillion-dollar kickbacks.

On the opening day of the inquiry into the role of Australian companies in the scandal yesterday, the former chief executive for AWB, Murray Rogers, was also shown emails revealing the company's attempt to hide its secret payments to the Iraqi regime from the United Nations, including one suggesting that staff could set up a Jordan account with a "friendly bank" like ANZ or "buy a very large suitcase".