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Annan’s Son Took Payments Through 2004

As I’ve been alluding for a long time in this forum, the United Nations stinks like a rotten onion.  Long, ago, stories of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s involvement—either directly or through his son—in the Iraq oil-for-food program under Saddam Hussein started surfacing.  Another reporter is onto this story now.

One of the next big chapters in the United Nations oil-for-food scandal will involve the family of the secretary-general, Kofi Annan, whose son turns out to have been receiving payments as recently as early this year from a key contractor in the oil-for-food program.

The secretary-general’s son, Kofi Annan, was previously reported to have worked for a Swiss-based company called Cotecna Inspection Services SA, which from 1998-2003 held a lucrative contract with the U.N. to monitor goods arriving in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq under the oil-for-food program. But investigators are now looking into new information suggesting that the younger Annan received far more money over a much longer period, even after his compensation from Cotecna had reportedly ended.

The importance of this story involves not only undisclosed conflicts of interest, but the question of the role of the secretary-general himself, at a time when talk is starting to be heard around the U.N. that it is time for him to resign, and the staff labor union is in open rebellion against “senior management.”

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