RogerRabbit
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 Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:46 pm Post subject: KOREAN: I MAY TATTLE ON U.N. OIL |
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http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/42836.htm
| Quote: | April 17, 2005 -- A South Korean hustler in the middle of the United Nations oil-for-food scandal may testify against U.N. officials to save his own hide, he revealed yesterday.
Tongsun Park told a South Korean newspaper that federal prosecutors have offered to make a deal on charges that he lobbied on behalf of Saddam Hussein's regime and was given millions to bribe U.N. officials.
"I am seriously considering the offer," Park told the newspaper Joongang Ilbo, also admitting that he had been paid "little money" by Iraq's former strongman.
Prosecutors have said they want to talk to Park about what role, if any, former U.N. chief Boutros Boutros-Ghali may have played in the scandal, but have stopped short of saying if they are investigating him.
Cutting deals with prosecutors is nothing new to Park.
During the 1970s "Koreagate" congressional influence-peddling scheme, Park admitted to shelling out $750,000 to 30 congressmen in exchange for no jail time.
On the current charges, he faces a maximum of five years in prison for failing to register as a foreign agent.
Niles Lathem
and Post Wire Service |
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