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| UN cuts back on investigating fraud |
| 2010-01-21 |
| Warning: A-Pee article.... Excerpt: In response [to the food-for-oil investigation findings of corruption, U.P.], it established a special anti-corruption unit, the Procurement Task Force, in 2006 that over the next three years uncovered at least 20 other major schemes affecting more than $1 billion in U.N. contracts and international aid. But at the beginning of 2009, the United Nations shuttered the agency and diverted its work to the Office of Internal Oversight Services' permanent investigation division. Since then, the number of cases opened, pursued or completed has dropped dramatically and the division has let go most former task force investigators, the AP found in an examination of U.N. documents, audits and e-mails, along with dozens of interviews with current and former U.N. officials and diplomats. Mohamed ElBaradei overseeing this division as well...? |
| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #3 Is this some new policy? I thought they always needed these funds to instigate fraud. |
| Posted by: Don Vito Ulusoque9489 2010-01-21 19:22 |
| #2 Our work is done here, Tonto. Adios... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-01-21 18:50 |
| #1 Wait a minute! You mean to tell me the UN actually used to investigate fraud? I had no idea. |
| Posted by: Mike 2010-01-21 18:31 |