Alexander Yakovlev (UN procurement)

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Alexander Yakovlev was a long serving tenured member of the United Nations procurement department (since 1985). He was involved in oil-for-food scandal and conflict of interests then dealing with IHC firm that employed his son, Dmitry Yakovlev. He is accused by the investigators of taking nearly $1 million in bribes.He also secretly solicited a bribe from a company called Societe Generale de Surveillance S.A., which was seeking an oil inspection contract under oil-for-food.

Alexander resigned at June 23, 2005. In August 8, 2005 Unite 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 soliciting a bribe under the oil-for-food program, making him the first U.N. official to face criminal charges in connection with the scandal-tainted operation and 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.


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