NationStates Jolt Archive


Ex-UN officer pleads guilty

Mesatecala
09-08-2005, 06:14
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050809/ap_on_re_us/un_oil_for_food

"Alexander Yakovlev, a Russian, also pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of wire fraud and money laundering for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from U.N. contractors in his work outside oil-for-food. He could face up to 20 years in prison for each of the three counts.

Yakovlev surrendered to FBI agents in Manhattan earlier Monday, as U.N.-backed investigators released a report accusing him and Benon Sevan, the former chief of the $64 billion program, of corruption. Sevan was accused of taking some $147,000 in kickbacks."

The flawless UN at its finest. :rolleyes:
Santa Barbara
09-08-2005, 06:16
The flawless UN at its finest. :rolleyes:

Oh, hello, strawman!
Neo Rogolia
09-08-2005, 06:18
Oh, hello, strawman!


Not a strawman, it's reflective of the whole. Corruption abounds, nobody denies that...at least, I thought nobody did.
Mesatecala
09-08-2005, 06:20
Oh, hello, strawman!

Considering the vast amount of bullshit and corruption that happens in the UN it is no strawman.
Santa Barbara
09-08-2005, 06:25
Not a strawman, it's reflective of the whole. Corruption abounds, nobody denies that...at least, I thought nobody did.

It's a strawman since no one has ever said the UN was flawless, that I can see.