Fed: AWB hearings to focus on Tigris deal

AAP General News (Australia)
08-21-2006
Fed: AWB hearings to focus on Tigris deal

The rorting of a UN aid program .. to recover an eight million dollar US debt for BHP
.. will be dissected by investigators when the inquiry into disgraced wheat exporter AWB
resumes tomorrow.

The deal .. known as the Tigris affair .. has exposed the resources giant to the possibility
of criminal charges.

Commissioner TERENCE COLE begins four days of hearings in Sydney tomorrow .. and is
due to hand in his report by September 29.

Witnesses will include AWB's former managing director ANDREW LINDBERG .. the company's
former marketing official .. DOMINIC HOGAN .. and former company secretary JIM COOPER.

AAP RTV rp/wf/bart

KEYWORD: AWB (CANBERRA)

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