A BUSINESS executive who wrote an email suggesting that Kofi Annan may have known about a UN oil-for-food contract awarded to his son's company denies ever talking to the UN secretary-general about the firm's bid.

INVESTIGATORS probing the UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq said in a report yesterday that there is not enough evidence to show that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan knew of a contract bid by his son’s employer.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s son was paid more than €22,900 a year for five years by a company under investigation in the UN’s Iraq oil-for-food programme corruption probe.