OIL FOR FOOD LATEST
April 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLUNITED Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan has admitted "great relief" that the independent committee probing the Iraq Oil-for-Food programme scandal found no evidence of his wrongly influencing the award of a contract to a firm employing his son Kojo. Annan however accepted criticism in another preliminary report for not asking the UN's Office for Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) or its legal office to formally investigate the contract with Cotecna Inspection Services. The UN will not reimburse the programme's former head Benon Sevan for legal ...
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