Total to face oil-for-food corruption trial

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Oil giant Total and its CEO are to stand trial on charges that the company engaged in corruption during UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq.

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A French magistrate has decided to send giant oil company Total and its chief executive to trial on charges that the company engaged in corruption during the United Nations oil-for-food program in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a judicial source said.