UNITED NATIONS — A member of Britain’s Parliament who professed support for Saddam Hussein and has clashed with American legislators over his role in the oil-for-food scandal, George Galloway, may face a criminal investigation in Britain after a House of Commons disciplinary committee recommended his suspension for 18 days.

According to one new piece of evidence that emerged from yesterday’s 181-page report by the House of Commons’s Committee on Standards and Privileges, Mr. Galloway made an apparent request to Saddam that “dues” owed by Iraq to fund his cooperative efforts with the dictator be paid without delay, and that declining oil prices had adversely affected their joint income.

Some of those who in the past were perceived as having been bettered by Mr. Galloway’s rhetorical skills and legal brawn — including such adversaries as the Daily Telegraph and Senator Coleman, a Republican of Minnesota — were able to declare vindication yesterday.

Mr. Coleman said evidence that Mr. Galloway misled Congress in testimony under oath was passed on to the Department of Justice and to other law enforcement agencies. The Telegraph reports today that Scotland Yard may launch a criminal investigation against Mr. Galloway.

Mr. Galloway famously won a 2004 libel suit against the Telegraph after correspondent David Blair published documents he found shortly after the 2003 war suggesting the Iraqi regime financed Mr. Galloway’s charity, the Mariam Fund. Yesterday, the Commons committee demanded that Mr. Galloway apologize to Mr. Blair for accusing him of perjury.

In today’s edition, the Telegraph reports that Scotland Yard is ready to “take the first steps toward a possible criminal investigation” against Mr. Galloway.

Mr. Coleman, meanwhile, zeroed in on the new evidence that Mr. Galloway’s 2005 testimony at the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations was not forthright. “The evidence shows that Galloway’s intent was to mislead the subcommittee,” Mr. Coleman’s spokesman, Leroy Coleman, told The New York Sun. “Senator Coleman takes misleading testimony very seriously and encourages these law enforcement agencies to review all of the evidence at hand, including the new evidence revealed in this report.”

Mr. Galloway said yesterday that the Commons committee’s report was “utterly oblivious to the grotesque irony of a pro-sanctions and pro-war committee of a pro-sanctions and pro-war Parliament passing judgment on the work of their opponents,” the Associated Press reported.

Yesterday’s report was but the latest to state that Mr. Galloway’s political activity on behalf of Saddam’s regime was financed by Baghdad through the oil-for-food program, and that he had been less than truthful in his accounting of the affair.

“A total of 18 million barrels of oil were allocated, either directly in the name of George Galloway” or “his associates,” the Volcker committee that investigated the oil-for-food scandal wrote in a 2005 report.

Earlier that year, Mr. Galloway appeared before Mr. Coleman’s committee, and denied any involvement with oil. “Senator, I am not now, nor have I ever been an oil trader, and neither has anyone on my behalf,” Mr. Galloway said. “I have never seen a barrel of oil, owned one, bought one, sold one, and neither has anyone on my behalf.”

This line, along with several other quips he has made during the well-publicized hearing, earned Mr. Galloway the admiration of many in the press who declared that the rhetorical clash between British and American legislators ended in a decisive victory for Mr. Galloway.

In yesterday’s report, the Commons committee published the minutes of an August 2002 meeting in Baghdad between Saddam and Mr. Galloway during which the Iraqi dictator and his deputy, Tariq Aziz, lavished praise on their Western friend’s efforts on behalf of the Baathist regime. They discussed ideas to enhance the cooperation, including through financing a new English-speaking television channel that would “lean toward our thinking.”

At the end of the conversation, according to the minutes, Mr. Galloway praised the efforts of Mr. Aziz to “facilitate the mechanism by which we have been able to obtain the funding necessary to finance our activities.” However, Mr. Galloway said, “We are now suffering from the problem of the price of oil which has resulted in a reduction in our income and delay in receiving our dues.”

Answering a question in 2005 from Senator Levin, a Democrat of Michigan, Mr. Galloway denied he had ever had a discussion with Mr Aziz about oil allocations.