SEVAN BRIBES REPORT
August 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLA THIRD interim report from the Paul Volcker panel into the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal has bluntly accused its former director of receiving bribes linked to his job worth US$147,184 from 1998-2002. The former US Federal Reserve chairman's independent inquiry has recommended UN secretary general Kofi Annan lift the diplomatic immunity currently protecting Benon Sevan from criminal investigations. Furthermore, Volker's investigators found that Sevan's intrigues involved a brother-in-law of former UN secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali, ...
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