Russia’s advisers received about 90 million barrels of Iraqi oil allocations for the help in the United Nations within the UN’s oil-for-food program, according to a U.S. Senate investigative panel.

``The allocations awarded to the Russian Presidential Council were part of a larger scheme to influence the policy of the Russian government toward Iraq and UN sanctions,’’ the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report said.

The oil was received by the Russian Presidential Council through Alexander Voloshin and a friend, Sergey Issakov, according to the report. The panel also added that the allocations were sold with the profit of $2.98 million.

Saddam Hussein ordered Russia be recognized in 2000 for its threat to veto a Security Council measure, said former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, now jailed in Iraq. ``As a result, the Hussein regime rewarded the Russians with a higher percentage of oil allocations as well as contracts for humanitarian goods,’’ the Senate report added.

The UN’s oil-for-food program ran from 1996 through 2003. It was aimed at isolating Hussein and providing Iraqis with food and medicine.