UN - Oil for Food Scandal - A Family Affair

Not only does Kofi Annan, the current Secretary General of the UN, have family members tied to the UN oil for food scandal, so does the former SG Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The former head of the scandal-tainted UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq and another official have been suspended after a damning investigation last week, the United Nations said.

The decision was taken after Paul Volcker, who is heading an independent probe into allegations of fraud and corruption into the now defunct 64-billion-dollar programme, released his panel's interim report on Friday.

The panel said that Benon Sevan, who headed the programme, had obtained oil allocations from Saddam Hussein's Baghdad regime on behalf of a trading company headed by a relative of former UN secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

The UN - rotten to the core.
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