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Former Australian Wheat Board trade and commodities chief Peter Geary. The Supreme Court has been told he knew contracts ...

AWB boss didn't want to be 'sanction buster'

A former executive of the Australian Wheat Board knew the exporter had contracts that delivered millions of dollars to Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, despite concerns he would be branded a "sanctions buster" within the United Nations, a trial has heard.