Alexander Yakovlev

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online |

Dollars for Durban II

Back to the U.N.

April 3, 2006 | |

How Corrupt is the United Nations?

Recent years have brought a cascade of scandals at the United Nations, of which the wholesale corruption of the Oil-for-Food relief program in Iraq has been only the most visible. We still do not...

February 26, 2006 | |

Cash-for-Kofi

The U.N. secretary-general wins a half-million dollar prize in Dubai.

October 26, 2005 | Wall Street Journal |

Business as Usual

Few outside U.N. circles have heard of IHC Services, a private company that for years was one of hundreds of firms selling goods and services to the U.N. As a rule, the U.N. keeps secret most det...

October 6, 2005 | FOXNews.com |

U.N. Procurement Scandal: Secret Information Was Leaked to a Bidder

Co-authored by: George Russell. On the morning of Nov. 6, 2003, an e-mail sped between two business executives at two private firms, bearing an important tip-off about an impend...

October 3, 2005 | FOXNews.com |

Procurement Scandal: New Conflict of Interest in Annan’s Inner Circle?

Co-authored by: George Russell. United Nations investigators scrambling to discover the extent of a bribery scandal spreading out from the organization’s procurement depar...

September 5, 2005 | Claudia Rosett FoxNews.com |

The U.N.’s Spreading Bribery Scandal: Russian Ties and Global Reach

Co-authored by: George Russell. NEW YORK —  How widespread is the corruption at the United Nations? The multibillion-dollar Iraq Oil-for-Food (search) scandal was jus...

August 10, 2005 | Wall Street Journal (Opinion Journal) |

Scratching the Surface

"A single dollar lost to corruption is a dollar too much if you're handling international public monies": With this pious utterance did United Nations chief of staff, Mark Malloch Brown, gre...

July 19, 2005 | FOXNews.com |

Was Former U.N. Official Wrongly Accused in Oil-for-Food Probe?

Co-authored: George Russell. UNITED NATIONS —  The secretive Volcker inquiry into the more than $110 billion United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal plans to issue a thir...

June 19, 2005 | FOXNews.com |

U.N. Family Ties: Is There a Replay of the Kofi and Kojo Annan Scandal?

Co-authored by: George Russell. Oil-for-Food is the biggest scandal ever to hit the United Nations, but it is just one of many scandals erupting at the world body – all sy...