Boutros Boutros Ghali named in Oil-for-Food scandal

More crud oozing out of the Oil-for-Food brouhaha; this time, former Sec-Gen Boutros Boutros Ghali has been implicated in the corruption:

Saddam Hussein’s regime paid millions of dollars to a South Korean businessman to create a “secret backchannel” to top UN officials, including Boutros Boutros Ghali, then the UN Secretary-General, US prosecutors alleged today.

The claim, formally naming Dr Boutros Ghali for the first time, was made at the start of the first US trial over the UN’s Oil-for-Food scandal.

Prosecutors said that Tongsun Park received $2.5 million (£1.4 million) in cash plus promises of lucrative business deals in return for providing access to Dr Boutros Ghali and at least one other top UN official.

This will be fun to watch. Unfortunately we continue to throw good money after bad at these third world thugs.