U.N. probes allegations of corruption, fraud
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A U.N. internal investigative unit has found an unexpected amount of fraud and abuse at the United Nations and is currently investigating 250 cases, including alleged sexual and financial offenses.
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THE UN is investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by UN civilian staff and soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, some of it recorded on videotape, a senior UN official confirmed yesterday.
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French prosecutors investigate alleged embezzlement by the leaders of Gabon and Congo.
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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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The United Nations is investigating Moroccan peacekeepers suspected of sexually abusing girls under age 18 in Ivory Coast and possibly leaving some of them pregnant, a U.N. spokeswoman 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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More than 50 internal U.N. audits of the Iraq oil-for-food program flesh out a picture of widespread mismanagement of the program, adding a new dimension to a scandal that has shaken the United Nations.
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The United Nations has been asked to set up an international investigative panel to probe alleged irregularities in Afghanistan's elections, the election management body said.
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US diplomats have confronted the UN Development Program (UNDP) with new allegations that its funds were misused and improperly diverted by North Korea, the US mission to the UN said Saturday.
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The World Bank and member countries are moving to help poor nations tackle corruption, after months of discussions.
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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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The United Nations needs greater investigative powers to probe its own activities and root out fraud, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.
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The United Nations is  investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by U.N.  civilian staff and soldiers in the Congo, some of them recorded  on videotape, a senior U.N. official said on Monday.
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The U.N. anti-poverty agency announced the appointment Tuesday of a three-member panel to investigate its North Korea operation following allegations about its financial transactions in the reclusive communist nation.
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UNITED NATIONS -- A U.N. task force has uncovered a pervasive pattern of corruption and mismanagement involving hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts for fuel, food, construction and other materials and services used by U.N. peacekeeping operations, which are in the midst of their largest...
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Investigators probing alleged corruption at the United Nations oil-for-food program are scrutinizing thousands of pages of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's documents, including e-mail and phone records, to determine whether he exerted influence in securing a contract for a Swiss company that employed his son.
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The UN calls for an independent investigation into reports of human rights abuses in Ethiopia's Ogaden region.