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	USATODAY.com - Annan's son believes criticism unfair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Kojo Annan, who lives and works in Lagos, directed all inquiries to his legal team when contacted through a friend who plays rugby with him in his upscale residential neighborhood, Ikoyi.
		A friend of Kojo Annan, who spoke on condition of anonymity saying he wanted to avoid spoiling his relationship with the secretary-general's son, said Kojo Annan's office at Petroleum Projects International, a trading company in this OPEC member state, was decorated with expensive artwork and that Kojo Annan drove a luxury sport utility vehicle.
		Kojo Annan worked for Cotecna in West Africa from 1995 to December 1997, and then was a consultant for the firm until the end of 1998 —; when it won the oil-for-food contract.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-03-30-kojo_x.htm (641 words)

	Senate strengthens case on Annan's son - The Washington Times: World - February 15, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Kojo Annan, the son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, played a far more extensive role than previously revealed in a company that won a key contract under the scandal-plagued Iraq oil-for-food program, Senate investigators have learned.
		Annan's relationship in the bidding for the contract, and has insisted that his work was restricted to two African countries and never dealt with Iraq.
		Kojo Annan, interviewed by committee investigators at an undisclosed location on Friday, told them that he could not recall the nature of the "machinery" he had mentioned in his memo, why it was to be based in New York and why it would be global in nature.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20050215-123622-9532r.htm (875 words)

	CNN.com - Annan's son: Probe 'a witchhunt' - Dec 13, 2004
		Annan worked for Cotecna from late 1995 to late 1997, and subsequently for nine months as a consultant to the firm.
		Annan told CNN he feels sorry for the distress he's brought on his father and the rest of his family, but he feels confident that in the end he will be found "innocent of any wrongdoing."
		Kofi Annan himself has said he had no involvement in the granting of U.N. contracts, but was "disappointed and surprised" to learn that Cotecna continued to pay his son after 1998 and "the perception of conflict of interest" that created.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/12/13/un.annan.kojo/index.html (779 words)

	CNN.com - Annan 'disappointed' son didn't tell all - Nov 29, 2004
		Kojo Annan received money for consulting work done in Africa for Geneva, Switzerland-based Cotecna Inspection, which was hired to verify whether food, medicine and other goods entering Iraq were on the approved list under the $64 billion oil-for-food program.
		Annan said he has "warm family relations with his son, but he is in a different field.
		Annan said he had no personal involvement in the granting of contracts to businesses that participated in the oil-for-food program.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/11/29/oil.for.food.kojo.annan/index.html (886 words)

	Kofi Annan’s son admits oil dealing
		Kojo Annan has told a close friend he became involved in negotiations to sell 2m barrels of Iraqi oil to a Moroccan company in 2001.
		Kojo is alleged to have travelled to Morocco to help finalise the sale and was present at key meetings.
		Kojo was a very passive executive and I always thought he basically lent his name to the firm.
	www.infowars.com /articles/world/un_annan_son_admits_oil_dealings.htm (740 words)

	ZWNEWS.com - linking the world to Zimbabwe
		Kojo Annan faces questions about a conflict of interest as the oil scheme was ultimately the responsibility of his father Kofi, who heads the UN.
		A spokesman for the company said: “Kojo Annan’s activities concerned exclusively Cotecna’s activities in Nigeria and Ghana, and he was not involved in any of Cotecna’s operations involving the United Nations or Iraq.” Annan joined AHT in 1999, two years after his father was elected UN secretary-general.
		Annan was approached to join the board of AHT at a time when Yamani was hoping to increase the company’s profile by hiring well-known figures, such as a former president of Costa Rica and Maurice Strong, a senior UN official and special envoy to Kofi Annan.
	www.zwnews.com /issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=9500 (1024 words)

	USATODAY.com - Kojo Annan received at least $300,000 from Swiss company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Kojo Annan, the son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, received at least $300,000 from a Swiss company that was awarded a contract from the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq, almost double the amount previously disclosed, two newspapers reported in Wednesday's editions.
		Annan's son, Kojo, worked for Cotecna in West Africa from 1995 to December 1997 and then as a consultant until the end of 1998, according to the company.
		In November, Eckhard said Kojo Annan's lawyer had informed the Volcker investigation that the younger Annan continued to receive $2,500 a month — $30,000 a year — from Cotecna for more than five years through February 2004.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-03-22-annan-oil-for-food_x.htm (878 words)

	Report Clears UN Chief of Corruption Allegations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Kojo Annan, who has refused to cooperate with the investigation in recent months, also arranged a 15-minute meeting in September 1998 between his father and Cotecna's owner, which Kofi Annan did not initially disclose to investigators.
		Annan has been under fire since a string of scandals came to light at the world body late last year, including allegations of sexual misconduct by UN peacekeepers.
		Kojo Annan got the job shortly after his father spoke to Michael Wilson, a longtime family friend who was also a vice president of Cotecna, about the possibility of a job for Kojo.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines05/0330-01.htm (706 words)

	Probe faults Annan - The Washington Times: World - March 30, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Annan for not perceiving a conflict of interest in the hiring of the Swiss inspections firm that employed his son Kojo -- who in turn was accused of lying to his father and hiding his role in the affair.
		Kojo Annan, the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) found, traded on his father's position and repeatedly misled inspectors and his own father about the nature of his business contacts and remuneration.
		Annan even knew his son's employer was under consideration for a $10 million-a-year U.N. contract to verify humanitarian shipments of goods destined for Iraq.
	www.washingtontimes.com /world/20050330-125641-1558r.htm (821 words)

	CNN.com - Annan's son settles UK libel case - Nov 11, 2005
		Kojo Annan was a consultant for the Swiss firm Cotecna, which won a U.N. contract to inspect goods shipped to Iraq under the program.
		"Kojo Annan placed several calls to the United Nations procurement department at critical times in the bidding process during the fall of 1998," according to a report released by the IIC in September.
		Kojo Annan said in a written statement at the time, "I never attempted to influence the awarding of the contract, and the IIC's report confirms that Cotecna was awarded the contract on the basis of its submission of the lowest bid."
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/11/11/annan.libel/index.html (748 words)

	U.N.'s Kofi Annan Off The Hook, Report Clears Kofi Of Oil-For-Food Wrongs; Son Still Scrutinized - CBS News
		Annan's advisers had told him after a cursory one-day audit in 1999 found no conflict and that no further probe was necessary.
		Kojo Annan worked for Cotecna in West Africa from 1995 to December 1997, then was a consultant for the firm until the end of 1998 — when it won the oil-for-food contract.
		Volcker's Independent Inquiry Committee found that Kojo Annan was not forthcoming with either his father or the committee and accused him of consistently trying to hide the nature of his relationship with Cotecna.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/03/30/world/main684085.shtml (1533 words)

	Michelle Malkin: HOW KOJO LOST HIS MOJO
		Annan's son Kojo ``actively participated in efforts by Cotecna to conceal the true nature of its continuing relationship with him,'' the report said.
		Kojo Annan wasn't ``forthcoming'' in interviews with the Volcker panel on the subject of the company accounts through which he was paid in 1999 and 2000, and has refused to answer questions about his financial interests, the report said.
		A 1999 inquiry by Kofi Annan's chief of staff into the possible conflict of interest stemming from Kojo Annan's employment by Cotecna was ``inadequate,'' and the matter should have been referred to the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services or the Office of Legal Affairs, the Volcker report said.
	michellemalkin.com /archives/001903.htm (375 words)

	The Hindu : International : Volcker reveals the Kojo Annan connection
		Kojo Annan that they thought could force his father's resignation, hours before the publication of the draft forward of the report in September.
		Kofi Annan's reaction, according to another person with knowledge of the meeting, was that the way the conclusions were phrased implied that he favoured Cotecna's (the Swiss firm for which Kojo worked) bid, and made him look so bad that it might force his resignation.
		Annan influenced the award of the contract, or even definitively knew that his son's company was bidding for it.
	www.hindu.com /2005/11/07/stories/2005110705981200.htm (605 words)

	Webshots AP News Headlines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Annan told reporters Monday that he had been working on the understanding that payments to his son, Kojo Annan, from Cotecna Inspection S.A. stopped in 1998 "and I had not expected that the relationship continued."
		Annan's son worked for Cotecna in West Africa from 1995 to December 1997 and then as a consultant until the end of 1998.
		Under that contract, Kojo Annan was paid $2,500 a month - $30,000 a year - in return for which he agreed not to work for a competitor, Wolfe said.
	daily.webshots.com /content/ap/current/h61021197.html (744 words)

	Press Review of Tuesday, 6 September 2005
		In late 1998, U.N. sources say, Kojo, son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, got a $3,000 loan from a friend for a down payment on a sporty green Mercedes ML 320 in Geneva, Switzerland.
		About the same time Wilson's wife bought a car from the Swiss dealer, Kojo Annan wound up paying $39,000 for his Mercedes, getting $15,000 in help from his dad plus a $6,000 "diplomatic" discount by falsely claiming that his father was the car's owner.
		A lawyer for Kojo Annan told TIME that Kojo reimbursed Wilson, who could not be reached for comment.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=89591 (273 words)

	The Daily News Online
		Annan called the report's conclusion an "exoneration" and declared that he planned to finish the two years remaining in his term.
		Kojo Annan was employed by Cotecna in Africa, and stopped actively working for the firm in 1998.
		In a statement released through his lawyers Tuesday, Kojo Annan said the report's criticism of him was "unfair" and that he was concerned about the impact on his father.
	www.tdn.com /articles/2005/03/30/nation_world/news02.txt (1416 words)

	The American Spectator
		Annan wasted not a minute in announcing dire warnings that Sevan's diplomatic immunity could be revoked and the former Friend Of Kofi turned over to New York prosecutors.
		In the new report Kojo is shown to have suckled at the same breast as Sevan, and Hizzoner the SecGen is declared guilty of nothing more than a father's love and maybe not being vigilant enough about a possible conflict of interest.
		Annan has become the Indispensable Man: a perfect personification of what is wrong with the U.N. For those of us who wish to see America leave the U.N. -- in the company of the few democracies of the world -- Annan is a powerful political symbol.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=7956 (1006 words)

	The Volcker Interim Report on Kofi Annan: Issues of Concern for Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		He was a long-time colleague of Kofi Annan and served as Annan’s deputy in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations from 1993 to 1996.
		The fact that Annan remains in office despite growing evidence of UN mismanagement and corruption with regard to the Oil–for Food Program sets a poor precedent for future leaders of the UN, who will be encouraged to believe they will not be held to account for the organization’s failures.
		Annan is increasingly a ‘lame duck’ Secretary-General who has become a severe liability to the effectiveness of the UN as a world body.
	www.heritage.org /Research/InternationalOrganizations/wm707.cfm (1951 words)

	LP: Annan's Son Took Payments Through 2004 (Oil for Food Scandal)
		Kojo Annan got $2,500 a month and may have gotten as much as $150,000 plus use of a Cotecna credit card after the time when the U.N. initially claimed he had left Cotecna, according to the New York Sun, which first reported the story yesterday.
		Kojo Annan was paid $2,500 monthly - a total of $125,000 - from the beginning of 2000 through last February, UN chief spokesman Fred Eckhard said.
		In an April statement, Cotecna said Kojo Annan's full-time employment — which focused entirely on its activities in Nigeria and Ghana — began in 1995 and ended in December 1997 after which he was retained as a consultant until the end of 1998.
	www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=76802 (2936 words)

	Kojo Annan oil-for-food pay was more than admitted \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Eckhard acknowledged that the United Nations previously said that Kojo Annan had stopped receiving monthly payments at the end of 1999.
		Cotecna, the company that employed Kojo Annan, was hired to verify that the goods actually reached Iraq.
		Kofi Annan has said his son joined Cotecna at the age of 22 as a trainee in Geneva before Annan became U.N. secretary-general.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041127/news_1n27foodoil.html (465 words)

	OpinionJournal - The Real World
		The current picture is that Kojo Annan's consultancy for Cotecna lapsed on the same day the company won the U.N. contract, Dec. 31, 1998 (not three weeks earlier, as the secretary-general's office previously conceded).
		What Secretary-General Annan neglected to mention, moreover, is that he himself does bear responsibility for how his Secretariat handles its procurement procedures, and what level of disclosure the U.N. requires of its contractors, and provides to the public.
		Annan referred to as "this Cotecna one," as if he weren't quite sure what whichamahoosy everyone was talking about, belonged to the handful signed by the Secretariat.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/cRosett/?id=110005964 (900 words)

	Roger L. Simon: The Food-for-Kojo Program
		It is the news, first reported by the Financial Times, that in 1999 Secretary-General Kofi Annan's son Kojo invested $235,000 in an ailing Swiss soccer club called Vevey-Sports and was elected the club's president.
		Yet, according to the FT, Kojo had little to do with the club's management and was never once seen at a match.
		It's at least worthy of a cocked eyebrow, that an elderly women that happens to be a major international corruption scapegoat, is--just as the story is breaking--found dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft.
	www.rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2005/04/the_foodforkojo.php (1037 words)

	Power Line: Coleman calls for Kofi break
		Kojo Annan, 31, had been employed from 1995 to 1997 at Cotecna Inspection SA, a Geneva-based firm that had been inspecting humanitarian goods imported by Iraq with U.N.-administered proceeds from its oil sales.
		Annan continued to receive as much as $2,500 a month from Cotecna until February 2003 as part of a "no compete" agreement, according to chagrined U.N. officials, who have said for years that the payments ended in late 1998.
		Putting the most favorable construction on the U.N.'s admission, Kojo Annan lied to the organization and concealed the fact that he was receiving up to $30,000 per year from the principal firm that inspected "humanitarian" goods shipped under the Oil for Food program--goods that were often substandard, if not non-existent.
	powerlineblog.com /archives/008768.php (744 words)

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