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06/14/2005:

"Memo Suggests Oil-For-Food Link to Annan"

The committee probing the U.N. oil-for-food program announced Tuesday it will again investigate Secretary-General Kofi Annan after an e-mail suggested he may have known more than he claimed about a multimillion-dollar U.N. contract awarded to the company that employed his son.

The e-mail describes a brief encounter in which officials from the Swiss company Cotecna Inspections S.A. discussed its bid for the contract during a summit in Paris in late 1998. Through his spokesman, Annan said he had no recollection of such a meeting.

If accurate, the e-mailed memo would contradict a major finding the Independent Inquiry Committee made in March - that there wasn't enough evidence to show that Annan knew about efforts by Cotecna, which employed his son Kojo, to win the Iraq oil-for-food contract.

In a statement, the Independent Inquiry Committee said it was "urgently reviewing" the memo.

"Does this raise a question? Sure," said Reid Morden, executive director of the probe.
Full: daileycomet.com

Well the Independent Inquiry Committee said it so it must be true. Are these the same guys who tried to sandbag Galloway? There is a very funny and damning picture that accompanies this article, showing Annan and Chirac in a conspiratorial tete-a-tete.