The managing director of AWB, Andrew Lindberg, has announced his resignation. The AWB board has released a statement this afternoon saying it accepts the resignation which takes effect from the end of ...

Two former AWB executives are facing a civil trial for allegedly inflating wheat export contracts and making secret payments to the Saddam Hussein regime The Australian wheat exporter AWB made secret ...

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 ...

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 oil-for-food scandal, hands his report to the Federal Government ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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.