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  • Ex-UN official sentenced to 8 years

    04/01/2008 8:57:59 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 6 replies · 88+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/1/08 | AP
    NEW YORK - A former United Nations procurement official convicted of accepting bribes was sentenced Tuesday to eight years and a month in prison. Sanjaya Bahel, 57, was sentenced after a jury found he had helped a friend win $100 million in U.N. contracts in exchange for a huge discount on two luxury Manhattan apartments and cash. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas P. Griesa also ordered Bahel to forfeit $103,500 and his interest in the apartments, near the United Nations headquarters. Bahel was chief of the U.N.'s Commodity Procurement Section from 1999 to 2003. Before he was sentenced, Bahel apologized....
  • U.N. Official Arrested, Accused of Steering Contracts to His Friend

    11/01/2006 7:08:07 PM PST · by CubaninMiami · 41 replies · 1,859+ views
    Fox News ^ | Nov 1, 2006
    A senior United Nations official who used his influence to steer contracts worth more than $50 million to a man who rewarded him with valuable real estate was arrested Wednesday, prosecutors said. Sanjaya Bahel, of Manhattan, was charged in an indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court...