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Kojo Annan and Benan Sevan Update
I don’t have time to dig into this this morning, but Ed Morissey has an update on the UNSCAM investigation. Check it out.
UPDATE: Ok, I couldn’t resist looking for a just a couple of minutes. Remember the $160,000 from his aunt who mysteriously fell down an elevator shaft and never came out of the coma? The Senate investigation seems to have turned up a bit more.
But Senate investigators yesterday displayed letters written by Iraqi oil officials both under Saddam and after his regime fell in 2003 that listed Mr. Sevan himself as the recipient of the oil allocations, which were then passed along to the Panamanian company. One Iraqi document put Mr. Sevan’s proceeds from an allocation of 9.3 million barrels of crude oil at $1.2 million.
“What we have uncovered suggests that Benon Sevan himself got the commissions that came from passing along the oil allocations,” said a Senate staffer.
Captain Ed wonders:
Wow — I wonder how Volcker managed to miss those? Could it be that the UN’s internal investigation, which reports directly to Kofi Annan himself, might have some strings attached? Sevan, one of Kofi’s closest associates, and Kojo appear to have skated past Paul Volcker in his work. Since Sevan ran the Oil-For-Food program directly under Kofi and Kojo obviously has an even stronger connection, it appears that Paul Volcker’s work has a lot less independence — or a much lower ability, at any rate — to find the truth about the largest corruption case in history.
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