Posted on 03/22/2005 7:50:10 PM PST by TFine80
After being caught up in a bribery scandal in Pakistan and losing a big contract in Nigeria, Cotecna, a Geneva-based company that inspects exports and imports, was keen for new business.
One of the people it was counting on for help was Kojo Annan, who had been employed by the company since autumn 1995, working in Lagos.
His father, Kofi, had recently been appointed secretary-general of the United Nations.
The organisation was disbursing tens of millions of dollars under the oil-for-food programme, designed for Iraq to buy food and medicines with revenues from the sale of crude oil.
“They were in dire straits and in desperate need of new business,” confirms one of the many investigators now delving into allegations of corruption in the UN. “A UN contract would have been a major coup.”
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If this can't bring him down.....
Dsigusting, of course. And these guys have the effrontery to lecture us about morality....?
No wonder Kofi announced his big new pro-American changes recently. Too little, too late.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised to find he helped facilitate 9/11.
His conniving certainly helped facilitate our response to it. Bush got tired of him.
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