More of the stinking onion that is the hidden-scandal-ridden United Nations is being peeled back. Another oil-food scandal emerges writes the Washington Times. I’ve posted about Annan’s son before. We’ve got so much more to learn about this clan.
NEW YORK — U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said yesterday he was disappointed in his son for accepting payments from a key contractor in the oil-for-food program for more than four years longer than had been previously acknowledged.
Kojo Annan, 31, had been employed from 1995 to 1997 at Cotecna Inspection SA, a Geneva-based firm that had been inspecting humanitarian goods imported by Iraq with U.N.-administered proceeds from its oil sales. He served briefly as a consultant until 1998.
But the younger Mr. Annan continued to receive as much as $2,500 a month from Cotecna until February 2003 as part of a “no compete” agreement, according to chagrined U.N. officials, who have said for years that the payments ended in late 1998.
“Naturally, I was very disappointed and surprised, yes,” the secretary general told reporters yesterday morning. “I understand the perception problem for the U.N., or the perception of a conflict of interest and wrongdoing.”
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