for- food case, companies were contracted to transport or ship goods to Iraq, including food and medicine, and construction materials. The oil-for-food scheme allowed Iraq to sell more than 64 billion dollars in oil from 1996 to 2003. Profits were deposited into a U.N. escrow account for humanitarian assistance to Iraqis, who were suffering from U.N. economic sanctions imposed on then-leader Saddam Hussein after his troops invaded Kuwait in 1990.
