Click to play videoNew Delhi: Former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh, indicted in Iraqi Oil-for-Food scam, on Thursday night said the Pathak Inquiry report had held that neither he nor his son derived any financial benefit and questioned how aspersions could be cast on him.
"I have not seen the report. But whatever has been leaked to the media proves I and my son are fully vindicated", Natwar said.
"The only aspersion against me and my son is that we misused our position. At that time I was neither a minister nor an MP nor my son was an MLA. How does the question of misusing of our position arise"? he said.
"How can therefore any aspersion be cast on me and Congress given a clean chit," the senior Congress leader said.
Singh had resigned from the Cabinet in December last year in the wake of the political storm triggered by the Volcker Committee's findings that he and Congress were non-contractual beneficiaries in the UN Oil-for-Food programme during Saddam Hussein's regime.
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