BAGHDAD - Tareq Aziz, one of Saddam Hussein's jailed right-hand men, was interrogated Tuesday in Baghdad by representatives of a UN panel investigating corruption in Iraq's oil-for-food programme, his lawyer told AFP.
Aziz also made a desperate handwritten and verbal appeal through his lawyer to be allowed to see his family.
The meeting with the three investigators lasted almost eight hours and took place at a detention facility near Baghdad's international airport in the presence of US military and government personnel and an Iraqi investigating judge, said defense attornery Badie Aref Izzat.
"They had no right to question him like that," the lawyer told AFP.
Aziz, the former Iraqi deputy prime minister, denied any wrongdoing under the programme and refused to answer some of the questions posed to him by the investigators, Izzat said, without providing further details.
03/01/2005 20:09 GMT