Wheat Cheats Side Games

A shady Sydney businessman, Karim Kisrwani, has just popped out of the woodwork with a sort of non-story related to Australia’s ‘Wheat Cheats’ scandal.
Kisrwani marched into a Melbourne newspaper this week and claimed he had been approached, in 2002, by a businessman with links to Saddam Hussein's regime to use his political influence in Australia to assist in getting wheat to Iraq.
Kisrwani says he received the wheat request from a Jordanian businessman and subsequently approached a federal MP for assistance. He won’t say which MP or even name the businessman.
What is curious is just why this character, previously subject to corruption inquiries (see below), would even come forward. If he has evidence it implicates him, if not he is exposing himself for no good reason, unless it is some form of payback to the Liberal Party who spurned him after the ‘cash for visa’ allegations in 2003.

Previous exposure
Never an immigration agent, Kisrwani had a 50% success rate of gaining ministerial intervention in doubtful immigration cases. In Australian immigration rules it is a bit like petitioning the governor for a stay of execution.
As well as being, then Immigration Minister Ruddock’s friend, Kisrwani was also a lavish donor to the governing Liberal Party.
Despite the curious mix of ingredients a toothless parliamentary inquiry founded from lack of cooperation. Like the current US scandal there is an issue of proving cash exchanges led to provable links to action.
Perhaps it is some form of tradition Lebanese form of payback, but it is difficult to see how the non-revelations, even if they were flushed out, would have any really difficult implications for anyone. Kisrwani says of the un-named MPs: “They tell me the wheat board is independent of government." If you try playing connect the dots on this one you find they are not all on the same page.