‘Overheated emotions’ force Wolfowitz to resign

THE former head of the World Bank Paul Wolfowitz, who resigned in a row about his companion’s promotion, yesterday said he had been forced to quit because emotions at the organisation had become “overheated”.

In a BBC interview, Wolfowitz defended his record as the bank’s president, saying he was proud of what he had achieved during his two years in the job.

Wolfowitz resigned on May 17 but had fought hard up to the last hour to clear his name of any charges of misconduct after a bank panel found he broke several bank rules by involving himself in the promotion of his friend Shaha Riza, a Middle East expert at the bank.