British MP: Charges 'a pack of lies'
Galloway denies profiting from oil-for-food program
Tuesday, May 17, 2005 Posted: 12:41 PM EDT (1641 GMT)
British Parliament member George Galloway appears Tuesday before a Senate panel.
(CNN) -- British Parliament member George Galloway on Tuesday angrily denied profiting from Saddam Hussein's regime and criticized the Senate panel probing alleged corruption the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq.
Galloway appeared before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which stated in a report last week that deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein granted him vouchers for 20 million barrels of oil between 2000 and 2003.
He called the accusations against him "a pack of lies" and told the panel that he never took "one thin dime" from Iraq.
"If you had any evidence of that I had ever engaged in any actual oil transaction, if you had any evidence that anybody ever gave me any money, it would be before the public and before this" committee today, Galloway said.
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