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LONDON, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- The former executive director of the United Nations' oil-for-food program for Iraq, Benon Sevan, has been charged with bribery and conspiracy to commit fraud.
A brother-in-law of former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Ephraim Nadler, faces the same charges in New York court, Britain's Independent reported.
Sevan allegedly received $160,000 from the Iraqi government with the help of Nadler.
Attorney Michael Garcia said there are warrants out for the arrest of both men in the United States and that Interpol would seek them out and send them beck to America.
The scandal arose from a program set up in 1996 that allowed the Iraqi government to sell oil to buy food and medicine for Iraqis.
Authorities said the program went askew due to bureaucrats, oil tycoons and Saddam Hussein, after Saddam was given the power to choose the oil buyers and the sellers of the goods.
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