UN's Sevan Legal Fees Came From Iraq Funds

Yesterday I posted a summary of the NY Sun article that found the UN finally admitted to reimbursing approximately $300,000 of Benon Sevan's legal fees related to the UN oil-for-food scandal. It appears those funds came from the $100 million left in Iraq's oil-for-food funds. Iraq's deputy ambassador to the UN was furious: "Using it [Iraq's funds] to defend the man accused of improprieties in handling Iraqi money as the program's chief is outrageous...It's like asking the depositor in a bank to pay for the defense of a bank employee who stole the bank's money."

It looks like the U.S. is not the only country to question the moral underpinnings of the corrupt UN.