Thursday, March 20, 2008

Paper Shredding Machine - Paper Shredders

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he won't take disciplinary action against his former chief-of-staff who shredded documents related to the Oil-for-Food scandal
Meanwhile, lawyers for former Oil-for-Food chief Benan Sevan are furious that the United Nations won't pay Sevan's legal fees. And France's former interior minister on Friday denied any involvement in suspected corruption benefiting Saddam Hussein in the program and said the detention of his former aide in an investigation into the program did not concern him.
Regarding Annan and the paper shredding issue, the secretary-general wrote in an April 19 letter to Iqbal Riza was released Thursday that while he said his former staffer's acts were "careless," "I do not believe they can be construed as deliberate attempts to impede the work of the Independent Inquiry Committee.
That committee, led by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker criticized Riza for giving approval to the shredding of three years of files on April 22, 2004 the day after the Security Council authorized an investigation into the Oil-for-Food program. The files which Riza said were duplicates contained documents related to the program that were unavailable in the U.N. records file, a report by the Volcker committee said in March 2008.

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