LISBON, Oct. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- The United Nations has charged two Portuguese citizens with corruption in handling the UN oil-for-food program, media reports here said on Friday.

    Ruis Sousa, an oil trader, and Armando Oliveira, who worked foran inspection company in Iraq, have been accused of earning millions of dollars by selling extra oil from Iraq and accepting bribes respectively.

    Sousa allegedly shipped out extra oil illegally from Iraq alongside the legally registered Iraqi exports in the late 1990s when Iraq's oil trade was restricted by UN sanctions to specific food and medicine purchases.

    Oliveira worked as an inspector for Saybolt, a Dutch-registered company inspecting Iraq's Mina al-Bakr oil terminal. The UN says he accepted bribes to the tune of 125,000 US dollars from Sousa. Oliveira resigned from Saybolt some time ago. Enditem