Posted on 04/17/2005 6:26:08 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Edited on 04/17/2005 6:35:01 AM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
Federal prosecutors investigating the Oil-for-Food scandal are focusing on a growing number of current and former U.N. officials, court documents show. Among those under scrutiny: ex-U.N. secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali and his aides. The documents were released last week along with criminal charges filed against South Korean businessman Tongsun Park, accused of receiving $2 million in secret payments from Iraq to lobby on Oil-for-Food. Some of the money, the Feds say, was to be used to "take care" of a senior U.N. official. Park also allegedly invested Iraqi money in a company owned by an "immediate family member" of another U.N. official. Investigators say a key event in the alleged scheme was a June 1993 meeting in Geneva between "U.N. Official #1" and two Iraqis. News reports show that a critical meeting on Iraq was held in Geneva at that time between Saddam Hussein sidekick Tariq Aziz and Boutros-Ghali. U.N. sources say this doesn't prove Boutros-Ghali's involvement. Boutros-Ghali couldn't be reached for comment; Park's lawyer says his client denies wrongdoing.
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The French-educated Ghali has always had exalted tastes. Beginning with his relationship with Sadat in the late nineteen seventies, when he moved from the university to foreign affairs advisor, he became particularly interested in purchasing property in Europe to provide a pied-a-terre for the Ghali family. If Ghali did NOT have his fingers in the food-for-oil pie most UN diplomats would be shocked.
Sounds like an nice prey for Muslim extremists.
The UN HQ should be moved to a more fitting site, my choice would be Harare, Zim. It would fit right in, and the cost of real estate in Harare is at or near historic lows!
The UN building should go condo, with the assembly hall as new off street parking.
Any real profits from this venture could be donated to the "Society for Brain Damaged Welders"
Neve trust anybody who has a double first name.
Boutros Boutros to Sing Sing?
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