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  • Annan 'very Disappointed' His Son Received Payments From Firm With an Oil-for-Food Contract

    11/29/2004 7:26:35 PM PST · by Aussie Dasher · 116 replies · 3,800+ views
    TBO.com ^ | 30 November 2004 | Aussie Dasher
    UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday he was "very disappointed and surprised" that his son had continued to receive payments until this February from a firm that had a contract with Iraq's oil-for-food program, the subject of numerous corruption investigations. Annan told reporters that he had been working on the understanding that payments to his son, Kojo Annan, from the Swiss-based firm Cotecna Inspection S.A. stopped in 1998 "and I had not expected that the relationship continued." But on Friday, U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said Kojo Annan's lawyer had informed the independent panel appointed by the secretary-general...