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  • UN ordered to pay legal fees of oil-for-food chief

    02/11/2009 11:07:00 AM PST · by Virginia Ridgerunner · 3 replies · 438+ views
    AP, via the Evening Sun ^ | February 11, 2009 | EDITH M. LEDERER
    The U.N.'s highest internal judicial body has ordered the United Nations to pay legal fees to the former chief of its oil-for-food program, who has been accused of accepting money to illegally influence the $64 billion humanitarian program in Iraq. The program was the biggest humanitarian program in U.N. history, but a U.N.-sanctioned investigation found widespread corruption, involving thousands of parties, that bilked the humanitarian program of $1.8 billion. The program chief, Benon Sevan, has been charged with bribery and conspiracy to commit wire fraud for allegedly accepting $160,000 to illegally influence the program. The Administrative Tribunal's judgment, obtained Wednesday...