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According to U.S. and U.N. investigators, the $60 billion program, which ran from 1996-2003 may have seen more than $6 billion directly skimmed and as much as $15 billion lost through oil smuggling overlooked by the U.N. and the Security Council itself.
IN RELATED NEWS, the former director of the Oil for Food program has issued an “or-else” threat to Kofi Annan. Annan Threatened: Pay My Bills Or I’ll Spill the Beans.
UNITED NATIONS – The embattled former director of the scandal ridden Iraq Oil for Food Program has sent a letter with an ultimatum to the office of Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Benon Sevan, a veteran Cypriot diplomat, now the target of several U.S. and U.N. investigations, has sent Annan a “demand” that the world body pay his mounting legal bills “or else.”
According to Annan chief of staff Mark Malloch Brown, the letter, written by Sevan’s legal team, carried an implied threat of new public disclosures regarding embezzlement in the now defunct oil for food program.
