MOSCOW, October 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia could demand that the Paul Volcker commission, probing into the scandal around the Oil-for-Food program in Iraq, disclose the sources of fake documents it had received, the Russian foreign minister said Saturday.
Sergei Lavrov said the commission's report was being thoroughly studied.
In a number of instances, the commission presented Russia with "rather dubious or clearly falsified documents" concerning Russia's participation in the Oil-for-Food program, he said.
"If more fakes are discovered now or in the foreseeable future, we will urge the commission to explain how it came into possession of these so-called documents," Lavrov said.
The commission, led by former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, said more than 2,000 firms linked to the UN Oil-for-Food program were involved in making illicit payments, including briberies and kickbacks, to the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein in exchange for oil export quotas.
The UN Oil-for-Food program ran from 1996 through 2003.
