Mr. Aziz now awaits trial in Baghdad, but during the program's life, from 1996 to 2003, he wooed friends for Iraq with profitable oil allocations.

Their receipt of these oil allocations does not mean that they did anything illegal.

"Neither Mr. Sevan nor Mr. Abdelnour was pleased with the reduction in the oil allocation," the report says.

The report says Mr. Sevan "denies that he asked for oil allocations or recommended any company to Iraqi officials for purchasing oil."

In total, he said, Russian politicians and political entities had received 30 percent of Iraq's special oil allocations.

It also said that Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his Liberal Democratic Party in Russia had received oil allocations, accusations that both he and the party denied.

An Iraqi document indicates he may have used the charity "to conceal payments from the oil allocation he had received from the Hussein regime," the report says.

The program was abused when Saddam Hussein intervened, personally selecting individuals and companies to receive oil allocations.

Mr. Duelfer's report said Mr. Sevan might have received oil allocations from Saddam Hussein.

Supports a partition of Iraq into Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish regions, with a limited central government to handle oil allocation and border security.