Two accused of taking bribes in U.N. contract deal with U.S. company

The Washington Post: UNITED NATIONS -- A U.N. anti-corruption task force has accused an Italian executive and a former U.N. official of taking bribes from a U.S. security contractor seeking to do business with the United Nations, according to a confidential U.N. letter obtained by The Washington Post.

Ezio Testa, chief executive of IHC Services, and Alexander Yakovlev, a former Russian procurement official at the United Nations, were charged by U.N. investigators with steering a 2001 contract for bulletproof vests to Armor Holdings, a company based in Jacksonville, Fla.  Read Article

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