Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 6

07-February-2005

IRAQ

Sevan Faces Disciplinary Process After Criticism In Oil-For-Food Report

The former director of the UN oil-for-food program for Iraq, Benon Sevan, faces a disciplinary process after being strongly criticized in a preliminary report into the program published on 3 February by Paul Volcker, the former head of the US Federal Reserve who leads a three-man independent panel of inquiry. Mr Sevan was said to have repeatedly solicited...