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Poor Kofi Annan. It must be so hard to run the world when everyone around you is a crook.(Brief Article)

National Review

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* Poor Kofi Annan. It must be so hard to run the world when everyone around you is a crook. There's Benon Sevan, former head of the Oil for Food program, who hightailed it to Cyprus when he was accused of salting away $147,000 in program funds; Aleksandr Yakovlev, former head of the U.N. procurement office, who has pled guilty to conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering; Kofi's son Kojo, under investigation for ties to the company that monitored implementation of Oil for Food; and Kofi's brother Kobina, who has been linked to the ...

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