Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky has denied accusations from a US Senate committee that he accepted millions of dollars in Iraqi oil allocations.
The committee said Saddam Hussein's regime offered oil to Mr Zhirinovsky and two ex-presidential aides to win Russia's help in ending UN sanctions.
Russia's deputy prime minister told the Interfax news agency Moscow had seen no evidence to back up such claims.
The committee says its information came primarily from former Iraqi officials.
But Mr Zhirinovsky, an ultranationalist MP, angrily denied the charges, saying he had seen "not a drop" of Iraqi oil.
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