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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: steve harris who wrote (672102)	2/12/2005 10:36:34 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) of 769670

How many are involved and how far up and down does it go? Oil-for-Food Chief Said to Block Audit Benon Sevan wouldn't allow audit The U.N. oil-for-food program chief under scrutiny for alleged corruption and mismanagement blocked a proposed audit of his office around the same time he's accused of soliciting lucrative oil deals from Iraq, according to investigators. A U.N. auditing team, which was severely understaffed, said running the $64 billion oil-for-food program was "a high risk activity" and a priority for review. But Benon Sevan denied the internal auditors' request to hire a consultant to examine his office in May 2001 - an act top investigators of the program are now calling into question.

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