Former Australian Wheat Board (AWB) chairman Trevor Flugge has been fined $50,000 and banned from a managing a corporation for five years for failing to properly investigate $223 million in kickbacks ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A former AWB manager was accused of reaping $US16 million ($21.3 million) in bribes from a shipping ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THE wheat exporter AWB is bracing itself for an avalanche of legal woes as Terence Cole, the head of the long-running inquiry into the ...

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 ...

US Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said today AWB and its affiliates, as well as 11 of its former employees, could be barred indefinitely from US government programs after further investigations.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. AWB, the Australian wheat exporter, has abandoned a deal to merge with domestic rival GrainCorp, formally ...