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A sweeping year-long probe of the Iraq oil-for-food program has concluded that the United Nations allowed “illicit, unethical, and corrupt behaviour” to overwhelm the $64bn (€51.2bn) operation, and must adopt sweeping reforms to reclaim its credibility before taking on such tasks again.

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THE son of the UN Secretary-General was yesterday reported to have received at least €230,000 from a Swiss company that was awarded a contract from the UN’s oil-for-food programme in Iraq — almost double the amount previously disclosed.

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