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	UN Office of the Iraq Program - Oil for Food: About the Program
		Sevan was appointed Director and Senior Political Adviser to the Representative of the Secretary-General on the Settlement of the Situation relating to Afghanistan, and was posted in Afghanistan and Pakistan, for monitoring the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.
		Sevan joined the Secretariat of the Economic and Social Council in June 1973 and served as the Secretary of the Council from 1982 to March 1988.
		Sevan is a graduate of the Melkonian Educational Institute in Cyprus.
	www.un.org /Depts/oip/background/latest/sevancv.html (609 words)

	Benon Sevan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Benon V. Sevan (born December 18, 1937 Nicosia, Cyprus) was the head of the United Nations' Oil for Food program established in 1996, charged with preventing Iraq's government from using the proceeds from oil exports for anything but food, medicine and other items to benefit the civilian population.
		Born into an Armenian family in Cyprus, Sevan was educated at the prestigious Melkonian Educational Institute in Nicosia.
		From 1982 to March 1988 Sevan was secretary of the UN Economic and Social Council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benon_Sevan (277 words)

	Benon Sevan - Armeniapedia.org
		Benon Sevan headed the oil-for-food programme from 1997 As former director of the UN's oil-for-food programme, Benon Sevan is now caught up in the scandal surrounding the programme for Iraq.
		Mr Sevan was educated at the Melkonian Educational Institute in Cyprus, and then studied history and philosophy at Columbia University in New York, eventually doing a post-graduate degree at the school of international and public affairs there.
		BENON V. After nearly a year and a half and more than $35 million spent, the Independent Inquiry Committee Into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program (IIC), led by the former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, has faulted the management of the program, which I ran for six years.
	www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Benon_Sevan (1281 words)

	Nur al-Cubicle: Portrait of Benon Sevan
		Sevan, 67, a Cypriot of Armenian descent, was chosen to direct the oil-for-food program after a distinguished 40-year career with the world body in which he was involved in some of the most intractable, and often dangerous, world crises.
		Sevan drew down his New York bank accounts in 1996 and 1997 to buy $180,000 in stocks at a time the market was booming, the report said, adding that borrowed on an equity line of credit and took a cash advance on his credit card.
		Sevan was named in October 1997 to run the oil-for-food program under which Iraq, squeezed by international sanctions imposed for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, was allowed to sell oil to buy goods for its people.
	nuralcubicle.blogspot.com /2005/08/portrait-of-benon-sevan.html (756 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Oil-for-Food Official May Have Blocked Inquiries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sevan also disagreed with an effort in late 2000 by the U.N. corruption watchdog, Dileep Nair, to submit the program to a major vulnerability assessment, saying that at a cost of nearly $50 million it would be too expensive, according to two U.N. officials and a senior diplomat.
		Sevan was reluctant to embark on an anti-corruption effort because it would complicate his relations with Iraq, whose cooperation was essential to the program's success, several U.N. officials believed.
		Sevan's briefing was arranged after Capt. Chiladakis Theofanis provided a written account of the scheme to both the United States and the United Nations.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A48225-2004Nov13?language=printer (1318 words)

	i-Newswire.com - Press Release And News Distribution - UN AGREED TO PAY BENON SEVAN’S LEGAL FEES, BUT NOT FOR PERIOD ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Benon Sevan, the head of the Office of the Iraq Programme, to have legal counsel during his interviews with the IIC.
		Sevan’s cooperation to the conduct of the inquiry and the fact that he was a retired staff member who was not subject to the Secretary-General’s instruction to all staff to cooperate with the IIC on pain of dismissal.
		Sevan has subsequently submitted legal fees, the amount he is seeking is currently being questioned by the United Nations on the grounds that not all costs relate to his cooperation with the IIC.
	i-newswire.com /pr11763.html (569 words)

	CNN.com - Lawyer: U.N. to accuse former oil-for-food chief - Aug 5, 2005
		Sevan placed himself in a grave and continuing conflict-of-interest situation that violated explicit U.N. rules and violated the standards of integrity essential to a high-level international civil servant," Volcker said.
		Sevan, who spent forty years with the U.N. and ran a $64 billion program, would jeopardize his career for $160,000, trust a person he had never met (Abdelnour) to carry out the scheme and report the proceeds on his U.N. financial disclosure forms," Lewis said.
		Sevan is the focus of an investigation by the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York into the oil-for-food program.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/08/05/oil.food.sevan (922 words)

	The Counterterrorism Blog: Is the UN Really Paying Benon Sevan's Legal Fees?
		Sevan for his legal fees, using the language that I used initially, and the decision to no longer do so once charges were raised against him were both taken by the Secretary-General.
		Benon Sevan was in charge of the programme, and he knows where the bodies are buried, and the United Nations may not want him to speak about where the bodies are buried and, therefore, you would want to persuade him not to speak where the bodies are buried?
		Sevan on a dollar-a-year contract to keep him in the status of a staff member, so that he would be obligated to follow the instructions of the Secretary-General directly as far as cooperating with Volcker.
	counterterror.typepad.com /the_counterterrorism_blog/2005/03/is_the_un_reall.html (3012 words)

	'I Am Not Running Away': Meet Benon Sevan, the man at the center of the Oil for Food scandal
		Sevan's lawyer last August, that he was used by the U.N. probe as a "scapegoat" to "deflect attention from other, more politically powerful targets," I asked if he might like to share his own version of the events and characters involved in Oil for Food.
		Sevan had set up next to them a small square laundry rack, on which he was drying a dozen pairs or so of dark socks, pegged with blue, red and yellow plastic clothespins.
		Sevan goes into a back room to retrieve some photos of the bomb damage, and when he returns he is also carrying a cigar.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2006/rosett040306.htm (1598 words)

	The Counterterrorism Blog: Is the UN Really Paying Benon Sevan's Legal Fees?
		Sevan for his legal fees, using the language that I used initially, and the decision to no longer do so once charges were raised against him were both taken by the Secretary-General.
		Benon Sevan was in charge of the programme, and he knows where the bodies are buried, and the United Nations may not want him to speak about where the bodies are buried and, therefore, you would want to persuade him not to speak where the bodies are buried?
		Sevan on a dollar-a-year contract to keep him in the status of a staff member, so that he would be obligated to follow the instructions of the Secretary-General directly as far as cooperating with Volcker.
	www.counterterror.typepad.com /the_counterterrorism_blog/2005/03/is_the_un_reall.html (3012 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Sevan accused of Oil-for-Food corruption (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sevan was believed to be in Cyprus at the time of the reportâs release.
		Sevan resigned in February, telling UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that he was innocent and accused the UN of using him as a scapegoat.
		Sevan served as the programâs executive director from 1997 until 2003, when the program was halted in the face of the US-led invasion of Iraq.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?id=12392 (760 words)

	The New York Times > International > United Nations: Former Oil-for-Food Director Criticizes Security Council
		Sevan's "inner circle" is his first comment on the allegations of corruption and cover-up that have damaged the United Nations at a time when it is grappling to shape an interim government in Iraq scheduled to take power on June 30, and to assist the country in planning elections and drawing up a constitution.
		Sevan was continuing to work under contract to the United Nations so that he could "fully cooperate" with an independent inquiry into the oil-for-food program being directed by Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the United States Federal Reserve.
		Sevan was referring to the group headed by Ahmad Chalabi, a member of the ruling Iraqi Governing Council who led the Iraqi National Congress, a coalition of opposition groups that lobbied for the American invasion of Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/06/02/international/02food.html?ex=1401508800&en=9bb564afe76c6525&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (924 words)

	The Theocrats » Blog Archive » Benon Sevan’s Crime Makes Little Sense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sevan’s personal finances are in way worse condition than he would have us believe.
		Sevan took far more money than $160,000, but the Committee has decided not to uncover more, reasoning we’ll be satisfied to learn about this paltry amount of scandal.
		Sevan truly was framed (extremely unlikely, but in the interest of fairness I’ll mention it).
	www.theocrats.com /2005/08/08/benon-sevans-crime-makes-little-sense (515 words)

	Newszine \| Global (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Benon Sevan, Former Executive Director of the U.N. Oil-For-Food Program, has been suspended with pay and is still under investigation.
		Benon Sevan, who was in charge of the $64 billion humanitarian program, and Joseph Stephanides, head of the U.N. Security Council Affairs Division, were informed Friday that they had been suspended with pay, spokesman Fred Eckhard said.
		Sevan and Stephanides were told they would receive a letter "laying out the charges against them," which will allow them to defend themselves before U.N. disciplinary bodies, he said.
	iml.jou.ufl.edu /newszine/Archive/020905/global/4.htm (756 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| I'm not running away, says UN official in oil for food scandal
		Benon Sevan, the official at the centre of the United Nations' oil-for-food scandal, has broken his silence to claim that he is being persecuted after an independent inquiry was ordered into allegations of multi-billion dollar corruption relating to the scheme.
		Mr Sevan's name was among 270 individuals and companies to appear on a list of recipients who allegedly skimmed at least £5.5 billion from the oil-for-food scheme.
		When asked about Mr Sevan's whereabouts in recent weeks, the UN would say only that he was on holiday, pending his retirement in June at the age of 66.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/09/woil09.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/05/09/ixnewstop.html (852 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Ex-UN Aide Alleged to Have Taken Iraqi Money (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		UNITED NATIONS - Benon Sevan, the former head of the U.N.'s Iraq oil-for-food program, expects to be accused of kickbacks from oil deals "in concert" with the brother-in-law of ex-U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, his lawyer said on Thursday.
		Sevan himself had declared to the United Nations a receipt of $160,000 from a now-deceased aunt in Cyprus in four payments from 1999 to 2003.
		On the expected allegation by the panel that Sevan was not cooperating with investigators, Lewis said Sevan had given the inquiry blank authorizations to investigate all bank accounts.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-8-4/30967.html (681 words)

	United Nations headquarters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In addition, a few members of the UN staff have diplomatic immunity and so cannot be prosecuted by local courts unless the diplomatic immunity is waived by the Secretary-General.
		Benon Sevan later fled the US to Cyprus, while Aleksandr Yakovlev and Vladimir Kuznetsov decided to stand trial.
		It is sometimes incorrectly stated that the famous "beat their swords into plowshares" passage from the Book of Isaiah (Isaiah 2:4) is inscribed on a wall at the U.N. headquarters building.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Nations_Headquarters (1338 words)

	Coffee with Sevan
		As a result, Sevan was fired from his U.N. post and now faces prosecution in the United States and several other nations should he ever emerge from his self-imposed exile in his native Cyprus.
		Sevan, it seems, does not have horns, but Rosett worried a bit about using the elevator down the shaft of which Sevan's elderly aunt plunged to her death shortly after receiving gifts from her nephew totally about $180,000.
		One wonders how many other Benon Sevans that are filling out the U.N. bureaucracy – glad to share coffee and friendly, diplomatic conversation – but ready and willing to steal food from the mouths of widows and orphans in order to fatten their own wallets.
	www.cfif.org /htdocs/freedomline/un_monitor/guest_commentary/Coffee-with-Sevan.htm (753 words)

	NBC 15 :: Close to Home - United Nations admits agreeing to pay oil-for-food chief's legal fees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sevan, we informed him at that point that we would not reimburse him for any legal fees that he incurred subsequent to the leveling of charges against him," Eckhard said.
		It also justified the decision by saying Sevan was a retired staff member not subject to Annan's instruction that all staff cooperate "on pain of dismissal." Sevan, however, has been kept on the U.N. payroll for a dollar a year, specifically so he would be obliged to talk to the investigators.
		Sevan and Joseph Stephanides, head of the U.N. Security Council Affairs Division who dealt with oil-for-food contracts, were charged with violating U.N. rules after the Volcker report was issued.
	www.wpmi.com /news/world/story.aspx?content_id=EE40EBD3-5D2D-4E8F-B77A-B501EB30BA80 (713 words)

	OpinionJournal - The Real World
		Sevan has returned to his native Cyprus, which does not have an extradition treaty with the U.S. But to such sketchy accounts, investigators for Rep. Henry Hyde's International Relations Committee are now prepared to add some illuminating details--starting with their encounter with Mr.
		Sevan came to the door "in shorts, no shirt, and sandals, smoking a cigar." Apparently everyone was surprised to come thus face-to-face.
		Sevan earlier this spring, and confirmed to me Tuesday that the investigation is continuing, but the New York prosecutor has no jurisdiction in Cyprus and cannot in any event bring charges against Mr.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/cRosett/?id=110007736 (1444 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		Sevan placed himself in a grave an continuing conflict of interest situation that violated explicit U.N. rules and violated the standards of integrity essential to a high-level international civil servant.
		ROTH: Sevan is Benon Sevan, who says he never took a penny and is being used by Volcker as a scapegoat because of massive political pressure.
		I mean, I think we owe it to Benon Sevan that one is innocent until proven guilty, and he's not actually proven guilty by these reports and the Volcker inquiry.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0502/04/i_dl.01.html (3661 words)

	In the Media
		Sevan was sharply speaking to is Claudia Rosett, freelance journalist, senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
		ROTH: Dennis, do you trust Benon Sevan, who according to documents yet to really be publicly shown to the United Nations, his name is linked to a company.
		Sevan is innocent until proven guilty by some court or some other device.
	www.defenddemocracy.org /in_the_media/in_the_media_show.htm?doc_id=218562 (2104 words)

	CNN.com - Former oil-for-food chief quits U.N. - Aug 7, 2005
		Benon Sevan resigned from the United Nations in a letter to Kofi Annan, accusing the secretary-general of "sacrificing" him for political expediency.
		Sevan became a U.N. "adviser" after the oil-for-food program ended in 2003, and his attorney, Eric Lewis, said Sevan retired with the title of undersecretary-general.
		Sevan also is the focus of an investigation into the oil-for-food program by the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/08/07/oil.food (998 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Benon Sevan, the former executive director of the program, is to be accused of getting cash for steering Iraqi oil contracts to an Egyptian trader and of refusing...
		The conduct of Benon V. Sevan, a Cypriot official who ran the program between 1997 until its demise in 2003, was a "grave and continuing conflict of interest" and had "seriously undermined the integrity of the United Nations," the report concludes.
		Benon Sevan, who was in charge of the program, was accused in a report from Paul Volcker, the former head of the US Federal Reserve, of using his position to solicit and receive oil allocations for a trading firm.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=benonsevan (3364 words)

	Benon Sevan: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Benon V. Sevan (born in Nicosia Nicosia quick summary:
		(Sevan reportedly accepted bribes from Saddam Hussein[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] in the form of oil vouchers, EHandler: no quick summary.
		(suspended Sevan and another UN official with pay because of their roles in the fraud.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/be/benon_sevan.htm (333 words)

	Ex-oil-for-food chief quits U.N. - World News - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Benon Sevan, the former executive director of the program, is to be accused of getting cash for steering Iraqi oil contracts to an Egyptian trader and of refusing to cooperate with the Volcker panel, his attorney Eric Lewis said.
		But Sevan noted on Sunday it was not credible he that would have compromised his career for $160,000 after handling billions of dollars in the program.
		Sevan, a Cypriot, is alleged to have taken bribes “in concert with” the brother-in-law of former Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Lewis said.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8863425 (712 words)

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