(February 17, 2005) The picture that emerges from multiple, overlapping inquiries into the world’s management of Iraq’s people and oil wealth since 1991 is appalling.
Senator alleges oil-for-food ‘bribe’
(February 15, 2005) Benon Sevan faces U.N. disciplinary charges, but has denied wrongdoing.
US and Iraq: Who owes whom?
(February 7, 2005) It is intriguing that nobody seems to have worked out how much the US and its allies owe the people of Iraq.
Iraq demands justice in wake of oil-for-food report
(February 4, 2005) Anyone who stole from the UN’s oil-for-food program for Iraq must stand trial and the money be repaid to the Iraqi people, Iraq’s Human Rights Minister said.
UN programme chief ‘solicited oil from Baghdad’
(February 3, 2005) Benon Sevan, head of the United Nations office that administered Iraq’s multi-billion dollar oil-for-food programme, "repeatedly solicited" oil allocations from Baghdad, a UN-appointed inquiry said yesterday.
Oil/food probe to ask more of Annan
(January 26, 2005) Investigators probing charges of impropriety in the UN oil-for-food program have questioned Secretary-General Kofi Annan about his involvement and will do so again, a UN spokesman has said.
Up against the past
(January 23, 2005) The last time Iraq tried a parliamentary system, it ended in failure, under circumstances not unlike today’s.
Spotlight on Kofi
(January 19, 2005) US federal prosecutors made public this week their first conviction in the United Nations Oil-for-Food program.
Rice vows to pursue oil-for-food scandal
(January 18, 2005) The U.N. oil-for-food program for Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was scandalously mismanaged and will be reviewed as an important item in President Bush’s second term, Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.
Annan accountable for oil-for-food programme: US
(January 13, 2005) The Bush administration, which earlier backed Secretary-General Kofi Annan in the UN oil-for-food scandal, on Tuesday demanded he be held accountable for mismanagement in the programme.
UN oil-for-food audits find laxity, no fraud
(January 11, 2005) Audit reports released by a U.N.-sanctioned commission into the multibillion-dollar oil-for-food program in Iraq showed lax oversight, understaffing and widespread inefficiencies throughout the system, but no evidence of fraud or corruption.
Gulf War victims overpaid by $5 billion‚ UN auditors
(January 9, 2005) The United Nations may have overpaid up to $5 billion to individuals, companies and Gulf states for losses in Iraq’s 1990 invasion and occupation of Kuwait, auditors’ documents showed on Sunday.
Saddam ‘spills the beans’ on hidden millions
(December 30, 2004) The US-appointed council believes the former president accumulated as much as $40bn (£22.5bn) during his years in power, which he hid in accounts in Switzerland, Japan, Germany and other countries.
Russia writes off over 92% of Iraqi debt
(December 23, 2004) Russia has written off 92%-93% of Iraq’s debt even though Iraq is not an economically underdeveloped country, President Vladimir Putin said at a news conference in the Kremlin.
Annan reiterates he won’t resign
(December 21, 2004) Secretary-General Kofi Annan reiterated Tuesday he has no intention of resigning over allegations of corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program and plans to move ahead with sweeping changes at the United Nations.
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