Good Intentions Corrupted

The Oil for Food Scandal and the Threat to the UN

By: JEFFREY MEYER, Mark Califano, Paul A. Volcker

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Paperback | 1 August 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Despite its good intentions, mismanagement and corruption plagued the UN's Oil-for-Food Program:

• More than 2,200 companies paid 1.8 billion in illegal surcharges and kickbacks to the Iraqi regime
• The UN Security Council stood by as the Iraqi regime outright smuggled about 8.4 billion of oil during the Program years in violation of UN sanctions
• The Iraqi regime steered oil contracts for political advantage by giving rights to buy oil to dozens of global political figures sympathetic to Iraq's goal to loosen or overturn the UN sanctions
• The Iraqi regime provided Benon Sevan, the UN's chief administrator of the Program, with rights to buy more than 7 million barrels of oil
• UN-related humanitarian agencies collected tens of millions of dollars for costs they never incurred, and some built factories in Iraq that weren't needed or that never worked at all
• Even UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was tainted by it

But the whole story has never been told in one place.

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Introduction : the United Nations at risk
Destined for corruption : the creation of the UN oil-for-food program	p. 1
Politics and perfidy in procurement : the UN's selection of banking and inspection contractors	p. 28
Son of the secretary-general : family ties and a new inspection company	p. 45
Saddam's slush fund : oil allocations and surcharges	p. 71
Kickbacks-for-contracts : Iraq's collection of kickbacks on humanitarian contracts	p. 106
Stumbling in the security council : the failure to redress program abuses	p. 131
"The story will quickly turn negative" : maladministration and corruption at the UN	p. 179
Major conclusions and recommendations by the independent inquiry committee	p. 233
About the independent inquiry committee	p. 243
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