Firms May Be Implicated in U.N. Probe
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Companies that bought Iraqi oil from traders who allegedly bribed Saddam Hussein for contracts under the U.N. oil-for-food program could be implicated in a web of corruption uncovered by a U.N. panel, a Swiss criminal lawyer said Sunday.
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U.S. investigators working in parallel to a U.N.-commissioned probe into allegations of corruption in its oil-for-food program said they hope to use public hearings to lift a curtain of secrecy obscuring the United Nations' finances and management.
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A U.N. procurement official has   been referred to U.S. prosecutors over allegations he steered   U.N. contracts to an Indian government firm, the United Nations   and diplomatic sources said on Friday.
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The BBC finds evidence of corruption by firms around the world doing business with Iraq during the sanctions regime.
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The investigation into suspected Chinese government subsidies to exporters could open the floodgate to more inquiries.
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The UN is probing allegations of contracts fraud amounting to $610m involving some peace missions in Africa.
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Multinational companies and financial institutions that use bribery and tolerate illicitly gained wealth are helping fuel corruption in the world's poorest countries, a global corruption watchdog said on Wednesday.
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Companies that bought Iraqi oil from traders who allegedly spent billions of dollars to bribe Saddam Hussein for contracts under the U.N. oil-for-food program now could be implicated in the vast web of corruption uncovered in the investigation by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, a Swiss criminal lawyer told The Associated Press on Sunday.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The Bush administration has been posting hundreds of highly confidential U.N. audits and investigation reports on a U.S. government Web site, opening the United Nations' inner workings and some of its more colorful scandals to unusual public scrutiny.
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Halliburton Co., once run by Vice  President Dick Cheney, said an internal probe found information  suggesting that members of a consortium it helps lead  considered bribing Nigerian officials to win business.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Pakistani peacekeepers serving under the U.N. flag "aided and abetted" a network of Kenyan businessmen smuggling gold from a mine in eastern Congo, providing them with food, housing, transportation and security, according to the findings of a confidential U.N. investigation.
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Officials investigate why  seemingly harmless chemicals were mistaken for bio-warfare agents at a UN building.
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The United Nations is investigating allegations that Indian peacekeepers in Congo traded food and even military intelligence with Rwandan Hutu rebels in return for gold, U.N. officials said on Friday.
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Investigators probing allegations of impropriety in the U.N. oil-for-food program have questioned Secretary-General Kofi Annan about his involvement and will do so again, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday.
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The United Nations is investigating  allegations that Indian peacekeepers in Congo traded food and  even military intelligence with Rwandan Hutu rebels in return  for gold, U.N. officials said on Friday.
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U.S. regulators are looking into  whether Wall Street firms are providing insider information on  upcoming offerings, either on purpose or inadvertently, the  Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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In an unusual move, the United Nations said Monday it will use an outside accounting firm to help track the billions of dollars pledged to help the victims of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean.