Posted on 12/01/2004 11:49:41 PM PST by kattracks
WASHINGTON The son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan used his father's worldwide connections to wheel and deal with heads of state at U.N. gatherings on behalf of a controversial Swiss company that won a lucrative oil-for-food program contract, The Post has learned.The intense lobbying by Annan's 29-year old son, Kojo, was disclosed in a raft of internal company documents including Kojo Annan's expense reports that the company recently turned over to congressional committees under a subpoena.
The memos provide the most revealing look to date at the business conflicts that are now at center stage of history's biggest financial scandal. They also place the younger Annan and his father far closer to each other than the U.N. has previously disclosed.
According to records reviewed by The Post, Kojo Annan, while working for the Cotecna firm, enjoyed extraordinary access to U.N. diplomats and other international dignitaries because of his father's position.
Kofi Annan had claimed earlier this week that he did not know the full extent of his son's dealings with Cotecna.
But the documents indicate that the son of the U.N. secretary-general was clearly trading on his father's name to win business for Cotecna, where he worked from 1995 to 1998.
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In New York in September 1998, Kojo Annan also held a series of meetings with heads of state and government ministers primarily from Africa to drum up business for Cotecna Inspection Services SA during the opening session of the U.N. General Assembly.
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Kojo Annan's activities caught the U.N. off guard last night. "We are unaware of this. This is the first we are hearing of it," a spokesman said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Must be the first time in a while they've had their heads pulled out of their...
Remember Roger playing in rock band in North Korea?
Isn't Annan's wife Swedish?
Seems like Kofi is going down ... just playing out the end game. Agree with the poster that said that those who F with W end up spitting out teeth like chiclets. Just ask Jesse.
It may be possible to run a scam like that for a few months without delivering the goods, but not as long as he ran it.
Daddy knew, and helped.
Close case of death by halitosis.
Agreed.
I can just hear God whispering, "Screw with Bush...I screw with you".
ya gotta luv it.
Bush is a man of God, and that's all there is to it. These wolves... it seems that all those who have gone against Bush are now running for cover, for their evil deeds many. I dream of the day when the UN is out of our country. ship the whole damn building to where the ICC is based... is it the Haghes or something?
It is highly probable that GEORGE SOROS is involved in all this. Ultimately, the investigation will expose all the participants involved in the design, implementation and beneficiarys of this plan.
This scandal is the product of experienced hands. Rich the designer. Soros the implementer and profiteer. Soros has a "legitimate" empire to channel this action. A syndicate of many including this pair, facilitated Saddam and his beneficiaries (France, Germany, UN, et all).
Soro's fanatical and seemingly illogical political opposition to Bush finally makes sense. This man is now the "deer in the headlights".
Please follow this logic and find the facts.
Plausible deniability is a political doctrine originally developed in the United States in the 1950s and applied to operations by the then newly-formed Central Intelligence Agency. Many people consider the docrine to be a form of hypocrisy.
Plausible deniability involves the creation of power structures and chains of command loose and informal enough to be denied if necessary. The idea was that the CIA (and, later, other bodies) could be given controversial instructions by powerful figures -- up to and including the President himselfbut that the existence and true source of those instructions could be denied if necessary; if, for example, an operation went disastrously wrong and it was necessary for the administration to disclaim responsibility.
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Liar, liar, pants on fire.
Bwahahahahaaaa!!!! Vile, but hilarious!
No suprise that people as liberal as Annan and cohorts would have blood money on their hands. What a joke the UN has been - it's time to pull the plug on US funding such corruption.
What you said.........I agree. Who owns/runs Cotecna?
I've read tons of stuff on OFF and have yet to see Soros name mentioned. Sure would like to know who's behind the curtain at Cotecna.
Sounds like Roger Clinton in blackface.
SGT. SCHULTZ: "I KNOW NOTHING! NOTHING!, COL. KLENCK, I KNOW NOTHING!"
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