The AWB oil-for-wheat scandal ( also known just as the AWB scandal ) refers to the payment Cost of kickbacks to the regime of Saddam Hussein in contravention of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Humanitarian Program .

In the mid-2000s , it was found Know to have been , through middlemen , paying Commerce_pay kickbacks to the regime of Saddam Hussein , in exchange Exchange for lucrative wheat contracts .

United Nations investigator Paul Volcker found Know that the Australian Wheat Board , and later AWB Limited , were not the only , but certainly the largest source of kickbacks to the Iraqi regime .