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2005-06-22 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by Steve 2005-06-22 12:14|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You out there GE?
Come clean Mike, all is forgiven.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-22 15:45|| 2005-06-22 15:45|| Front Page Top

#2 UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A senior U.N. purchasing officer unexpectedly submitted his resignation and his office was then sealed by investigators into the scandal-tainted oil-for-food program for Iraq, the United Nations announced on Wednesday. But the two events are not necessary related as Alexander Yakovlev, the procurement official, had been cooperating with the investigation on contract bids for Iraq, led by Paul Volcker, the former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman.

Rather Yakovlev was the subject of a separate U.N. inquiry following allegations by Fox News that he helped his son get a job with a firm that once did business with the United Nations but not under the oil-for-food program. Yakovlev faxed his resignation on Tuesday night, a day after U.N. officials announced a probe into the claims, U.N. deputy spokeswoman Marie Okabe said. Yakovlev, according to Fox, helped his son get a job with the New York-based IHC Services, which had supplied equipment and other services to the United nations.

But there is no evidence IHC was involved in the now-defunct $67 billion oil-for-food program, which supplied food, medicine and other goods to ordinary Iraqis suffering under U.N. sanctions imposed in 1990 after Baghdad's troops invaded Kuwait. Okabe gave no reason for Yakovlev's resignation and said he was informed that the U.N. investigation, by the Office of Internal Oversight Services, would go ahead anyway. She said he had promised to continue cooperation with the Volcker panel, which had interviewed Yakovlev extensively, characterizing him as someone who obeyed U.N. regulations in awarding contracts under the oil-for-food program.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-06-22 16:40|| 2005-06-22 16:40|| Front Page Top

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