Alexander Yakovlev (diplomat)

Alexander Yakovlev (diplomat)

Alexander Yakovlev was a long-serving tenured member of the United Nations procurement department (since 1985). He was involved in the oil-for-food scandal and had other allegations of impropriety.

He is accused by the investigators of taking nearly $1 million in bribes, which also includes alleged illicit dealings with Compass Group PLC's subsidiary Eurest Support Services (ESS) and its terminated CEO Peter R. Harris and senior executive Andy Seiwert.

Yakovlev is alleged to have conducted himself improperly in 1996 when he indirectly tried to get bribes from Societe Generale de Surveillance S.A..

Yakovlev resigned June 23 2005. On August 8, 2005 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan waived the diplomatic immunity of Alexander Yakovlev on a request from the U.S. Attorney's Office, and Yakovlev apparently had been taken into custody, said Mark Malloch Brown, Annan's chief of staff.

The same day he pleaded guilty to wire fraud under the oil-for-food program, making him the first U.N. official to face criminal charges in connection with the scandal-tainted operation. He was released under bond of $400,000.

Alexander Yakovlev also pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of wire fraud and money laundering for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from U.N. contractors in his work outside oil-for-food. He could face up to 20 years in prison for each of the three counts.

External links

* [http://www.compass-group.com/CompassGroup/ Compass Group PLC - Official site]

ources

* [http://www.iic-offp.org/documents/Third%20Interim%20Report.pdf Interim UN report]
* http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050808/D8BRSJFG0.html
* http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/un_monitor/guest_commentary/un-corruption-widespread.htm
* http://www.compass-group.com/MediaCentre/NewsReleases/UNInvestigation.htm


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