FACTBOX: Companies being sued by Iraq over UN program

(Reuters) - The government of Iraq sued dozens of companies on Monday for paying kickbacks to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's regime under the U.N. oil-for-food program.

Here is a complete list of the companies named in the lawsuit:

* Several units of Switzerland's engineering company ABB Group

* Units of AGCO Corp., the world's third-biggest farm equipment company.

* The engineering unit of industrial and medical gas company Air Liquide

* Drug chemical group Akzo Nobel

* Units of drug company Schering-Plough

* Drug company AstraZeneca

* Saudia Arabia's Mais Co. for Medical Products

* Units of Swedish engineering company Atlas Copco

* Australia's largest wheat exporter AWB Ltd, which was found by an Australian government judicial inquiry in 2006 to have paid $222 million in kickbacks to Iraq in return for wheat sales.

* Units of privately held healthcare company B.Braun Melsungen AG

* Medical device company Boston Scientific Corp.

* European bank BNP Paribas

* A unit of Buhler Group, a global technology company in food, chemical processing and die casting.

* Texas oilman David Chalmers, who admitted to paying millions of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam's regime.