The CPM and CPI, which support the UPA coalition, declined immediate comment, saying they would do so after “studying the report”.

The report, which dwelt less on the Congress, has given extensive “evidence” on the Singhs, Andaleeb and Khanna. Senior counel T R Andhiyarijuna and Raju Ramachandran who acted as the “commission’s counsel” said: “We led with the evidence from various sources obtained by the commission”.

Sources said: “the telephone conversation transcript between Andaleeb and Khanna were also submitted as evidence”. Andaleeb and Khanna, sources said, were in regular touch with “two persons” in the Middle East, one an Indian and the other from “that region”. The “money link” could be traced only to “these two persons” as of now, they pointed out.

What Volcker said

• Volcker named Natwar and Congress as “non-contractual beneficiaries’’ of Iraqi oil sales in 2001

• According to Volcker, Natwar was in category of individuals who either sold or gave their rights to buy oil from Saddam’s Iraq to oil companies. In his case, it was allegedly to Switzerland-based Masefield AG

• Natwar, Volcker said, had rights for four million barrels of oil, of which 1.9 million barrels were lifted by Masefield. The Congress also allegedly had rights for four million barrels. Only one million barrels were lifted in one go, again by Masefield AG, said Volcker