Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Monday, August 08, 2005


The former head of the United Nations oil-for-food program, Benon Sevan, was accused on Monday by a U.N.-established panel of getting nearly $150,000 in a bribe for an oil deal.

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The panel, headed by former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, recommended U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan waive immunity for "purposes of a criminal investigation" of Sevan and another U.N. official, named in a separate complaint.

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