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Fri Nov-26-04 08:10 PM
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U.N.: Annan's Son Got Payments on Deal (Iraqi oil-for-food)

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Edited on Fri Nov-26-04 08:13 PM by Khephra

UNITED NATIONS -- The son of Secretary-General Kofi Annan received payments from a firm with a U.N. Iraqi oil-for-food contract more than four years longer than the world body previously admitted, the U.N. spokesman said Friday.

Spokesman Fred Eckhard said the panel investigating alleged corruption in the oil for food program has been told by Kojo Annan's lawyer about the payments.

"There is nothing illegal in this," Eckhard said of the payments from the Swiss firm Cotecna. However, it was an embarrassing moment for the United Nations to have to admit that its earlier information was wrong.

Eckhard said that Kojo Annan's attorney told him that the younger Annan "continued to receive monthly payments beyond the end of 1999, when we previously thought they had ceased, through February 2004."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-un-corruption,0,1252659.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

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