(2004-05-14) Un Iraq Oil Corruption

It sounds like UN officials were skimming money from the War On Iraq Oil For Food program. Most prominent among those accused in the scandal is Benon Sevan, the Cyprus-born U.N. undersecretary general who ran the program for six years... The second page of the letter contains a table titled "Quantity of Oil Allocated and Given to Mr. Benon Sevan." The table lists a total of 7.3 million barrels of oil as the "quantity executed" - an amount that, if true, would have generated an illegal profit of as much as $3.5 million. (Corruption)