Posted on 05/19/2004 3:22:58 PM PDT by nunya bidness
NEW YORK — An internal United Nations audit from 2003 found significant problems with the international organization's Iraqi oil-for-food program, revealing that millions of dollars went unaccounted for.
The 23-page audit by the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services (search) into the program now the subject of an independent probe looking into allegations of abuse also revealed problems with the oil-for-food program's administration, specifically with a company that employed Secretary General Kofi Annan's son as it prepared to bid for an oil-for-food contract.
Click to read the U.N. internal audit of the oil-for-food program.
The audit devotes almost 20 pages to the U.N.'s dealings with Cotecna (search), a Swiss-based company that was awarded a $4.8 million dollar contract for the oil-for-food program just months after Annan's son, Kojo, ended a consulting assignment with the firm.
It is not clear if Annan himself ever read the audit. He has insisted in the past that he was unaware of any problems with the oil-for-food program while it was in operation. He has also denied any conflict of interest with his son's involvement with Cotecna.
The April 8, 2003 report was addressed to Benon Sevan (search), former head of the oil-for-food program. Sevan has refused to talk to Fox News about the program or his role in the matter, except to say that he has done nothing wrong.
The document was obtained by Mineweb.com, an international mining publication based in South Africa that focuses on mining finance and corporate news.
What did Kofi know and when did he know it?
Thanks- copied & saved.
This is my favorite world wide cover-up. It just won't go away (only on FR and Fox that is).
bttt
How high up does this go?????
Koffi in cuffs.
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