Panel to Probe Alleged U.N. Overpayments
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Independent investigators looking into alleged corruption in the Iraq oil-for-food program said Monday they would check into allegations that victims of Iraq's 1991 invasion of Kuwait are being overcompensated by about &#36;4 billion.
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US diplomats have confronted the United Nations 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 investigative arm of the U.N. mission in Congo has opened an inquiry into allegations that Indian peacekeepers serving in this central African nation are illicitly trafficking in gold, a spokesman said Friday.
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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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The UN is probing allegations of contracts fraud amounting to $610m involving some peace missions in Africa.
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About $3 million in United Nations money intended to help impoverished North Koreans was diverted by the Pyongyang government toward the purchase of property in France, the United Kingdom and Canada, according to a confidential State Department account of witness reports and internal business rec...
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More than 100 members of Congress will try to block some United States funding of the United Nations unless US officials are allowed to begin an open and complete investigation
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United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan has become the target of escalating attacks in the United States over suspected corruption in the body&#39;s now-defunct oil-for-food humanitarian programme for Iraq.
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NEW YORK -- Congressional investigators examining &quot;a semitrailer truck load&quot; of subpoenaed documents are trying to determine whether lax monitoring at a French bank that held more than $60 billion for the UN oil-for-food program facilitated illicit business deals by the former Iraqi government, officials told The Associated Press.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday said the United Nations will use &#36;30 million in revenue from the U.N. oil-for-food program for Iraq to pay the initial bill for the independent investigation of corruption allegations in the program.
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The U.N. Development Program,  under fire from the United States, named a Hungarian, an Indian  and an American on Tuesday to an outside board to investigate  its practices in North Korea and the case of one  whistle-blower.
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The United Nations has charged two purchasing officers with violating U.N. rules following testimony at the trial of a former U.N. procurement official convicted last month of bribery and fraud, the U.N. said Tuesday.
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UNITED NATIONS, June 1 -- U.N. agencies paid North Korean staff members and suppliers in hard currency without approval and hired only government-approved staff in violation of U.N. procedures,  auditors said Friday.
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A Swiss company that is being investigated on suspicion of fraud and abuses in the United Nations&#39; oil-for-food program paid the son of Secretary General Kofi Annan more than $50,000 for consulting
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A siege mentality prevails at a World Bank unit that investigates allegations of misconduct and corruption in bank-financed projects, an independent panel says. It recommends the group reach out to other departments and outside advisers to deal with its problems.
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A faculty panel has been appointed to investigate claims of intimidation of Jewish students by pro-Palestinian professors.
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Vivid allegations of widespread corruption at the U.N. oil-for-food program by the top U.S. arms inspector have added credibility to accusations the United Nations looked the other way while Saddam Hussein's government skimmed billions of dollars and offered kickbacks to European and Arab countries and officials.