A US Senate committee has alleged that the controversial left-wing British MP George Galloway was granted an allocation of 20 million barrels of oil by Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.
A report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations alleges that Mr Galloway used a Jordanian broker to sell his allowances.
The findings come a week after Mr Galloway was re-elected to Westminster as an anti-war candidate.
The committee, which is made up of Democratic and Republican senators, produced the report as part of a broader, ongoing investigation into the UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq which ran from 1996 to 2003.
The report alleges that over a three-year period Mr Galloway was granted the oil to sell on to international brokers.
It quotes from interviews with former officials of Saddam Hussein's regime and bases its assertions on contract documents from the Iraqi State Oil Marketing Organisation.
It also alleges that Mr Galloway may have used an Iraqi charity he established to funnel the oil sales.
Last December, the MP won damages against The Daily Telegraph. The newspaper had alleged he was involved in the oil-for-food programme. Mr Galloway has always denied the charges.
The Senate committee refers to The Daily Telegraph's allegations against Mr Galloway.
It claims the documents are not related to those used by the newspaper, but Mr Galloway has issued a statement saying these are the same false allegations.
Former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua has also been implicated in the report.
