UN vows to discipline officials in oil-for-food probe

The UN has vowed to discipline two officials implicated in a report that detailed conflicts of interest and flawed management in the UN oil-for-food programme, while the man leading the investigation warned that more revelations were forthcoming.

The interim report zeroed in on the chief of the oil-for-food programme, Benon Sevan, saying Saddam Hussein’s regime awarded oil allocations in his name to a trading company between 1998 and 2001.