Report on Iraq Oil-for-Food Scandal Out
Posted on: Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 12:00 CDT
The investigation into Iraq's oil-for-food program reportedly found that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan failed to curb corruption in the project.
However, an investigator told The New York Times the report, which was to be submitted to the United Nations Wednesday, did not find evidence to support charges that Annan improperly influenced the program.
His sins were ones of omission basically; there were things that he might well have done and should have done that he didn't do, a senior investigator told the newspaper.
He said lapses included Annan's failure to look more thoroughly into the activities of his son, Kojo Annan, to see if his working for a company that received an oil-for-food contract posed a conflict of interest for his father, the Times reported.
The investigation, led by former U.S. Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Paul Volcker, found no evidence that Kofi Annan knew about the contract, but it found instances where Kojo Annan did try to influence it, the investigator said.
The investigation found the United Nations is generally inefficient, over-politicized, corrupt and in desperate need of immediate repair.
Source: United Press International
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