A former AWB manager was accused of reaping $US16 million ($21.3 million) in bribes from a shipping company that transported Australian wheat to Iraq. Details of the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Canada’s Agrium on Monday launched a A$1.2bn ($1.1bn) offer for AWB, the Melbourne-based wheat trader, topping ...

ELEVEN former executives of wheat exporter AWB could face criminal charges and jail terms of up to 10 years after the Cole inquiry found they had engaged in an elaborate deception that illegally ...

In the early 2000s, AWB became embroiled in a kickbacks for wheat scandal with the government of former Iraqi dictator Suddam Hussein. The revelations brought down a lucrative monopoly and saw a ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Baghdad news every morning. John Howard, Australia’s prime minister, yesterday said AWB, the wheat exporter, had agreed to give up ...