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Article: Oil-for-food investigators probing independence of U.N. internal auditors
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- January 15, 2005
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DESMOND BUTLER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
01-15-2005
Dateline: NEW YORK
Investigators probing allegations that administrators at the U.N. oil-for-food program for Iraq took bribes and allowed Saddam Hussein to skim money from the program are raising concerns that U.N. officials discouraged internal auditors from focusing on the program's central office.
On Sunday, an independent committee looking into the allegations released more than 50 audits of the program carried out by the United Nation's internal watchdog. The audits detail how U.N. agencies working under the oil-for-food program allegedly squandered millions of dollars through suspect overpayment to contractors, ...