Former Indian ambassador to Croatia Anil Mathrani was present in meetings with Iraqi authorities that discussed the award of oil contracts to people close to former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh, the R S Pathak Authority report has said.
Mathrani had distanced himself from Natwar following the revelations of the Volcker committee, set up by the United Nations to probe into irregularities in the Iraq oil-for-food programme.
The report said Mathrani along with Natwar Singh's son Jagat and his business partner Andaleeb Sehgal went to the building of State Oil Marketing Organisation in Baghdad to get a briefing on how oil was allocated to companies under oil-for-food programme.
The visit, it said, was made a day after Natwar Singh, Jagat Singh and Andaleeb Sehgal met
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Who leaked the Pathak report?
Volcker Report: The Indian Link