Kofi’s Smoking Memo
Charles Johnson
Tue Jun 14, 2005 at 5:32 pm PDT • Views: 353
Kofi Annan may have finally landed in very hot water, as a newly revealed memo indicates he may have known more than he admitted about his son Kojo’s dealings with Swiss firm Cotecna: Memo raises questions on Annan role in UN contract. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A newly disclosed memo appeared to cast doubt on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s insistence he was unaware of a bid by a Swiss firm that employed his son for a lucrative contract under the scandal-tainted U.N. oil-for-food program.
U.N.-appointed investigators were “urgently reviewing” the memo, Michael Holtzman, a spokesman for the Independent Inquiry Committee led by former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, said on Tuesday.
The memo described a late-November 1998 Paris meeting of Annan with officials of Cotecna Inspection Services, just weeks before the Geneva-based company won the contract.
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