Friday, November 4 2005 12:49 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New York: The head of the Inquiry Committee looking into the UN's tainted oil-for-food programme, Paul Volcker has said the Congress Party is welcome to send a legal notice.

"They (Congress) are welcome to send a legal notice. The UN has certain privileges and immunities. And we also in some cases have the analysis but in some cases we certainly listed the information indicated from Iraqi records," the author of the report into the massive corruption in the UN oil-for-food programme during Saddam Hussein's regime, said.

"We didn't say what is right or wrong. We only said what was there in the Iraqi records, whether there was denial, acceptance, if there was something in between or no answers."

The Congress Party yesterday decided to issue a comprehensive legal notice to the UN and the Volcker Committee demanding full disclosure of the material on the basis of which the Inquiry Committee reached the 'unverified conclusion' that the party is a beneficiary in the Iraqi oil deal scam.