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  • Scandal-plagued UN suspends staff

    01/16/2006 2:09:22 PM PST · by Aussie Dasher · 19 replies · 1,161+ views
    Herald Sun ^ | 17 January 2006 | Evelyn Leopold
    EIGHT UN officials have been suspended with pay as part of an investigation into the world body's procurement services following scandals in the oil-for-food program in Iraq, UN officials said this morning. The investigation by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services is the result of a probe into contracts in the UN peacekeeping department, which is fielding some 85,000 troops, police and civilians around the world. "There is an audit being done of peacekeeping department management," UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. "As a result of that audit, which also took a look at the procurement department ... we have...