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04/09/2006 15:31
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An ex-UN official has been accused of awarding contracts to a company in his native India in return for favours, according to the Associated Press (AP).
A report from the UN is alleged to have named Sanjaya Bahel as having diverted procurement funds to a company, Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd (TCIL), with which he had links. Mr Bahel, an ex-government official in India, is said to have known a wealthy businessman who represented the company.
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The investigation claims that Mr Bahel ignored evidence that UN peace-keeping funds were being diverted from employees sent to Kosovo, Liberia and the Congo by TCIL to help with communications construction.
Mr Bahel was chief commodity procurement officer for the UN between 1998 and 2003 and from 1999 to 2004 TCIL benefited from over $100 million worth of UN contracts, according to the AP's coverage of the probe.
"All I can say to you is to me the allegations are not correct. I have good reasoning and valid reasoning to counter those," Mr Bahel told the American newswire.
Charges of conspiracy, wire fraud and aiding and abetting could be levelled at the ex-UN employee.
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