According to the Washington Times Senator Norm Coleman's Subcommittee on Investigations will delve deeper into allegations against Kofi Annan's son Kojo and Benon Sevan, the U.N. official who oversaw the seven-year program were intimately involved in ripping off the Iraqis while allowing Saddam to continue to stay in power via the illicit funds obtained by him through the program:
Kojo Annan, the son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, played a far more extensive role than previously revealed in a company that won a key contract under the scandal-plagued Iraq oil-for-food program, Senate investigators have learned.
Investigators also have uncovered documents suggesting that Benon Sevan, the U.N. official who oversaw the seven-year program and was suspended last week, had a much more direct interest in laundered oil deals handed out as bribes by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein under the program. One Iraqi internal investigation put Mr. Sevan's profits at $1.2 million, nearly 10 times the previous estimate.
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