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 .

Lon Nol was seriously concerned about the sale of large proportions of the rice crop to the National Liberation Front ( N.L.F ) for Southern Vietnam or on the Saigon black market where clandestine sales were apparently handled Hold by local Chinese middlemen who had found friends and worked in conjunction with cells of former Viet Minh sympathizers acting on behalf of the N.L.F .