Editing Oil-for-Food Programme (section)

===Indictments===

On 6 January 2006, [[South Korea]]n businessman [[Tongsun Park]] was arrested by the FBI in [[Houston]] after he was indicted for illegally accepting millions of dollars from Iraq in the UN Oil-for-Food Programme. The criminal charges against him were unsealed in a U.S. District Court in Manhattan.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10741998 | title=Korean arrested on oil-for-food scandal charges | publisher=NBC News | date=6 January 2006}}</ref>

After an investigation by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]'s New York Field Office, on 16 January 2007, [[Benon Sevan]] was indicted by prosecutors from the Southern District of New York for taking about $160,000 in bribes.<ref>{{cite news|title=United States Attorney – Southern District of New York – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: U.S. INDICTS FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UNITED NATIONS OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM, AND UNITED STATES BUSINESSMAN|url=https://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/January07/sevanindictmentpr.pdf|publisher=[[United States Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]]|date=16 January 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607090912/http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/January07/sevanindictmentpr.pdf|archive-date=7 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Attorney General Mukasey Recognizes Department Employees and Others for Their Service at Annual Awards Ceremony|url=https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2008/October/08-opa-954.html|publisher=[[United States Department of Justice|DOJ]]|date=28 October 2008}}</ref> [[Michael J. Garcia]], the [[United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York|U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York]], issued a warrant through [[Interpol (organization)|Interpol]] for the arrest of Sevan at his home in Cyprus, as well as a warrant for Efraim "Fred" Nadler, a New York businessman who was indicted on charges of channelling the illegal payments to Sevan. Nadler's whereabouts are unknown.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/16/AR2007011600706.html | title=Former U.N. Oil-for-Food Chief Indicted | newspaper=The Washington Post | author=Colum Lynch | date=17 January 2007}}</ref>