On January 6, 2006, South Korean businessman Tongsun Park was arrested by the FBI in Houston after he was indicted for illegally accepting millions of dollars from Iraq in the UN Oil-for-Food Programme. The criminal charges against him were unsealed in a U.S. District Court in Manhattan.[15] In July 2006, he was convicted on conspiracy charges.[16] He became the first person convicted through the oil-for-food investigation.