UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was scrambling to respond to allegations that top UN managers helped Saddam Hussein skim huge sums of money from the organization’s $67 billion dollar Oil for Food program in Iraq. Allegations surround reports of UN agents who bargained with Saddam on behalf of an Oil company run by an Egyptian relative of former UN secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali and of a lucrative oil-for-food contract landed by a company who Kofi Annan’s son Kojo was working for.
Jan 01