Oil-for-food committee reviews new Annan memos

The committee probing the UN oil-for-food programme has announced it will again investigate Secretary-General Kofi Annan after two previously unknown emails suggested he may have known more than he claimed about a multi-million-dollar UN contract awarded to the company that employed his son.

One email described an encounter between Annan and officials from the Swiss company Cotecna Inspections in late 1998 in which its bid for the contract was raised.