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Home > Kenya: UN staff ran refugee extortion racket

Contributor [1]
Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 02:00
Categories: 
Corruption [2]
Issue Number: 
51 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Corrupt United Nations staff in Nairobi extorted millions of pounds from refugees desperate for a fresh start in western countries including Britain, UN investigators have said. Three Kenyan employees of the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, are also charged with conspiring to send a death threat from Osama bin Laden to the US ambassador to Kenya.

Category: 
Governance [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/corruption/5451 [5]
Country: 
Kenya [6]

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