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February 9, 2005

Volcker's awkward questions - Report on the UN oil-for-food scandal

The Volcker committee investigating the scandal surrounding the UN’s oil-for-food programme has issued a critical report. The programme’s director, Benon Sevan, comes in for especially tough judgment. But the questions left unanswered have made the UN’s harshest critics only hungry for more.



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