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Annan's Son Took Payments Through 2004

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jlmadyson

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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.
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Originally posted by: jlmadyson
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.
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This would not be surprising considering the level of corruption involved in this oil-for-fools scam.

CsG
 
one would think those opposed to our presence in Iraq would be infuriated over this scandal, it did lead to mas suffering of the Iraqi people. They work so hard to convince everyone that is their true concern, kind of like the UN objectors.....
 
He got $120,000 for a non-compete clause Alistar7. Compared to an unjust war I'm not very impressed. It will take a lot more for the UN to out-sleaze the neo-cons.
 
Why does everything have to be compared to the neocons? If I murder someone tonight or embezzle some cash does that mean it is okay because it is not as sleazy as what you perceive the administration to be?
 
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Why does everything have to be compared to the neocons? If I murder someone tonight or embezzle some cash does that mean it is okay because it is not as sleazy as what you perceive the administration to be?
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Can I use this quote every time someone says "Yeah, but Saddam killed X number of people. You can't compare the two."?
 
Exactly, the corruption on this program led to the PREVENTABLE deaths of 10,000+ people every month for over 10 years. Where was the concern for the people of Iraq then?
 
Originally posted by: Alistar7
Exactly, the corruption on this program led to the PREVENTABLE deaths of 10,000+ people every month for over 10 years. Where was the concern for the people of Iraq then?
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Neocons I tell you, Neocons. :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: Infohawk
He got $120,000 for a non-compete clause Alistar7. Compared to an unjust war I'm not very impressed. It will take a lot more for the UN to out-sleaze the neo-cons.
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Oh really? Since when were things with Iraq comparable? You all seem to squawk when someone brings up the hundreds of thousands killed by Saddam yet you continue with theis "unjust war" BS and claim it is sleazier than the oil-for-fools scam? Puhleeze.:roll:

Oil-for-food scandal over Kofi Annan's son deepens
AFP , UNITED NATIONS
Sunday, Nov 28, 2004,Page 11
Kojo Annan, son of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, was until February paid by a buyer of Iraqi oil under the UN "oil for food program," now the focus of a fraud probe, a UN spokesman said Friday.

The younger Annan had earlier been named as a former employee of the Swiss corporation Cotecna until 1998, and it was known that he was paid until 1999. However, it was not previously known that he was on the payroll until February last year, just after the scandal broke.

Spokesman Fred Eckhard said Kojo Annan's lawyer, in response to a question from a reporter from the New York Sun, had confirmed the later date.

"The lawyer confirmed that indeed it was so," Eckhard said.

"He explained that it was part of an open-ended, no-compete contract between Cotecna and Kojo, and said that they had made this information known to the Volcker commission, so it's in the hands of the Volcker commission," he said, referring to former US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who head the inquiry.

"This runs counter to what we had told you, because it had been our information that those noncompete contract payments had ceased at the end of 1999. I can't explain it," the spokesman said.

"All I can say is it'll have to be now for Paul Volcker to explain it, and clearly the information is in his hands."

Under the program, which ran from December 1996 until this month, 248 companies in several nations bought Iraqi oil in contracts worth US$64.2 billion, the committee said.

In all, 3,545 companies exported goods worth US$32.9 billion to southern and central Iraq, and 941 other companies exported US$6.1 billion's worth to northern Iraq.

The oil-for-food plan allowed former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's regime to ease the burden of international sanctions by selling oil to buy humanitarian supplies.

But it mushroomed into the largest aid program in UN history, and critics say Saddam abused the program by evading sanctions and offering vouchers for oil as bribes to hundreds of officials from different countries.

Among those under suspicion of having accepted payments from Saddam in return for support against the US-led war are businessmen and politicians in France and Russia, both permanent members of the UN Security Council.

The newspaper said the Swiss company paid Kojo Annan around US$2,500 per month.
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CsG
 
First of all, I think that the corruption coming through in the OFF scandal is disgusting. More reason that either the UN needs hardcore reform, or that we need different international body.



Exactly, the corruption on this program led to the PREVENTABLE deaths of 10,000+ people every month for over 10 years. Where was the concern for the people of Iraq then?
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Prove it. Gimme a link. I've become suspicious of these off-the-cuff statistics since Kosovo. And it was the left that was all over this claim before 9/11. They used it to justify a removal of the sanctions that were the cause of the problem. Hindsight, of course, shows that the sanction regime was working.

Oh really? Since when were things with Iraq comparable? You all seem to squawk when someone brings up the hundreds of thousands killed by Saddam yet you continue with theis "unjust war" BS and claim it is sleazier than the oil-for-fools scam? Puhleeze.
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The thing that is somoetime forgotten is that Saddam racked up most of his body count in during his rise to power and during the Iran-Iraq war. The developped world's playing both sides up the middle during that conflict is one of the causes of their hatred today. There were aditional slaughters after the US convinced the Shi'ites to revolt during Gulf War I, and then let them hang to dry. But he had done nothing significant in the past 10 years.

My position has always been that the Iraq war is unjustified unless it can be demonstrated reasonably certainly that it prevented more death than it caused. Cad's assertion is weak, because those deaths were in the past. There was no evidence that Saddam was about to renew is reign of terror. Quite the opposite.

Alistar7's claim has more meat on it, and I have before in this forum said that I wll significantly revise my position on the war if it can be supported.

Here ya go guys, an opportunity to get one of the resident lefties to flip-flop in before your very eyes.
Bring it on.
 
The OFF situation increased the resistance for cooperation by Saddam. He felt that he had support to protect himself from accountability.

during previous confrontations, he opened the dorrs for review whenever he was pushed to the brink.

The OFF created a buffer in his mind that allowed him time to play a shell game.

Had the shell game not been played, the complete scenario in Iraq would in mose probability taken a different tack.
 
This is the reason the US keeps refusing to pay the UN dues. The UN is probably the most corrupt organization in the world, any money put into it disappears left and right.
 
Originally posted by: Infohawk
He got $120,000 for a non-compete clause Alistar7. Compared to an unjust war I'm not very impressed. It will take a lot more for the UN to out-sleaze the neo-cons.
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example #1.

what does the UN scam have to do with the US war? Why not look at each for what they are. The UN is praised for it's actions, duties, and when America doesn't rely on it, america gets the shaft.
It's nice to see that maybe the UN isn't all it's cracked up to be and any wrong doing should be handled.

You can't have confidence in a criminal, no matter who it is. this runs deeper then just a few people, and i am tired of people trying to divert the story by diverting attention from it to something else, like a war, or anything else.

Or is it that you don't want the world to find out those you idolize are criminals too?


 
Annan 'surprised' at son's link to oil-for-food scandal

"Surprised" :roll:

By Anne Penketh Diplomatic Editor
30 November 2004


The United Nations has revealed that the son of the secretary general, Kofi Annan, worked for a company being investigated in the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal for four years longer than he first admitted.

Mr Annan said last night he was "very disappointed and surprised" that his son Kojo had not told him the full story of his links to Cotecna in Geneva.

The oil-for-food scheme allowed Iraq, which was under UN sanctions, to export limited quantities of oil in return for food and medicine. It later emerged that Saddam Hussein diverted billions of dollars from the scheme to bribe officials.

Cotecna was hired by the UN between December 1998 and 2003 to check civilian supplies reaching Iraq under the programme.

The UN had previously stated that Mr Annan's son stopped working for Cotecna in February 1999. But a UN spokesman, Fred Eckhard, said Kojo Annan's laywers had informed a UN inquiry that he continued to receive monthly payments until February 2003.

There is no evidence that Kojo Annan, who was based in Nigeria, worked on the Iraq project. Part of the payments involved an agreement not to compete with Cotecna in west Africa after he left the firm.
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CsG
 
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