U.N. Oil-for-Food Chief Faces Fresh Charges

The blogshpere has been reporting on the UN oil for food scandal for over two years now. Still, it's nice to see legacy media, like The New York Times doing its job and reporting on the scandal.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 - The Senate subcommittee on investigations says it has documents showing that the former head of the United Nations oil-for-food aid program may have made as much as $1.2 million personally from illegal oil shipments by Iraq

Well, surprise, surprise, the UN's own investigation failed to "discover" this.

An independent investigation led by Paul A. Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman, has already accused the former United Nations official, Benon V. Sevan, of a serious conflict of interest. That panel said Mr. Sevan had solicited Iraqi oil for a friend whose company, African Middle East Petroleum, received several oil allocations from the Iraqi government. But it did not find that Mr. Sevan personally benefited from illicit oil exports.

Because they did not want to find it.

Seems there is more evidence against Kojo Annan.

Documents distributed Monday indicated that Kojo Annan had told Cotecna's chief executive months before the awarding of the contract that he had "put in place a machinery" in New York that would be of a "global nature" and would "assist in development of new contacts for the future."

The investigators said that neither the company nor Mr. Annan's son, whom they interviewed in London last Friday, could explain what he meant by that statement. Both Cotecna and Mr. Annan have denied any wrongdoing or conflict of interest in the awarding of the inspection contract to Cotecna.

Sadly, no mention in the Times about how the US was falsely accused of causing the deaths of thousands of Iraqi women and children because of sanctions. We now know that it was the corrupt UN's and Saddam's fault.
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