Trevor Flugge
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Trevor Flugge is an Australian businessman, most notably as the Chairman of the Australian Wheat Board.[1] He also served as chairman of the Australian Wheat Growers Association and as a board member of Wesfarmers and joint senior agricultural advisor in Iraq. [2]
[edit] AWB & The Cole inquiry
Trevor Flugge was chairman of AWB until his resignation in 2002, amid the Cole Inquiry into accusations that AWB had paid kick-backs to the Saddam Hussein regime. Documents dated before the the Cole Enquiry in the kick-back scheme show Flugge was part of an AWB delegation to Baghdad in 2002 that attempted to save Australia's wheat sales to Iraq. At the meeting, AWB officials agreed to pay $2 million dollars to Saddam's regime to settle a dispute and allow some wheat exports to resume. This payment was made by inflating the price of wheat contracts administered by the United Nations' Oil-for-Food Program. [3]
Flugge is an old boy of Aquinas College, Perth.
[edit] References
- ^ Australian Wool Growers Association (accessed:13-03-2007)
- ^ Transcript - Alexander Downer Interview (accessed:13-03-2007)
- ^ The Age - The Odd Stray Shot (accessed:13-03-2007)
