Posted on 07/18/2005 1:00:03 PM PDT by neverdem
WASHINGTON — Investigators have discovered overseas bank accounts belonging to disgraced U.N. oil-for-food program head Benon Sevan that could unlock the mystery over whether he profited from dirty deals with Saddam Hussein, The Post has learned.
Sources close to the numerous probes of the giant U.N. scandal revealed that investigators have recently discovered that Sevan, who lives in New York, has accounts in Switzerland, Turkey and Cyprus — countries with notoriously tight bank secrecy laws.
Massive behind-the-scenes efforts are under way by investigative agencies to gain access to the records, according to officials with two separate agencies involved in the U.N. probe.
Sevan, who is now under suspension from the United Nations, will be the focus of one of three reports expected to be issued over the next several weeks by the Independent Inquiry Commission, headed by former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker.
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau is conducting a criminal probe of Sevan's alleged dealings. At least two congressional panels are also expected to issue reports in the fall about Sevan's oil dealings.
Sevan, the former executive director of the scandal-scarred, $64 billion humanitarian aid program to Iraq, remains unable to return to the U.N. headquarters without permission, under the terms of his suspension.
Sevan, a native of Cyprus, has repeatedly denied that he took oil bribes from Saddam's regime and said he is being made a scapegoat.
In its February report, the Volcker commission discovered Iraqi Oil Ministry documents indicating that Sevan was awarded sweetheart oil deals through a Panamanian-registered company owned by a relative of ex-U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
The commission stopped short of accusing Sevan of accepting bribes, saying it had not been able to trace money from the deals between Iraq and the Panamanian company directly to him. But the Volcker panel said...
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See this link: http://www.acepilots.com/unscam/archives/001835.html
or just google "Sevan, aunt, elevator" and see what turns up.
We are talking about $160 000 - the lady lived on a $1000 monthly pension.
But it was all an accident, nothing to see here.....and Vince Foster commited suicide.
bttt
What "mystery"?
Are we still pretending these people didm't steal from the poor-box?
Great links backhoe!
Bump!
I won't be happy until they tie half the Democrat Party to the Oil-for-Food scandal....
PING
Your quesrion is one that bedevils Dan Rostenkowski to this day.
I'd be happy if it were just: Hill/Billy, Mr WIlson and Mrs Wilson III, the sKerry's, Soros, Dean, Kennedy, Moore, .....
Ummm.. would that be a Chineese Panamanian company?
later read
If you want to make people angry, lie to them. If you want to make them absolutely livid, then tell 'em the truth.
There's a lot of truth to that.
Have I missed something? What story are you referencing?
he'll die of an unknow toxin the day after he's arrested....
At a link in one of the first posts, you can learn how after suspension, Koffee kept this guy on at a dollar a year as a "consultant" and he has been an open joke with the staff for shredding documents and cleaning files for the last six months.
Is Ahmad Chalabi still Iraq's oil minister?
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