Oil-For-Food Probes Eye Kofi Son's Secret Pay 

By Niles Lathem 
April12, 2005
The New York Post
Original Source: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/44351.htm

WASHINGTON — The son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is a target of new investigations into whether he violated his controversial deal with a Swiss firm that won a major U.N. oil-for-food contract, The Post has learned. 
Sources told The Post that lawyers for the Swiss company, Cotecna Inspections, as well as the commission headed by former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker are investigating recent mysterious payments to Kojo Annan from the French firm Socotec International Inspections. 
The payments from Socotec came despite the fact that Annan had signed a non-compete deal with Cotecna in which he was secretly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars from 1999 to 2004 not to work for business rivals. 
Annan did not inform his father about his non-compete deal with Cotecna, and the payments from the firm, which verified shipments of humanitarian goods into Iraq, were only discovered during later investigations into the oil-for-food scandal. 
Annan's London-based lawyers, contacted by The Post, refused to comment on what he did for Socotec or how much he was paid, citing ongoing probes. 
But Seth Goldschlager, spokesman for Cotecna, told The Post, Cotecna does consider Socotec a competitor. 
Sources close to the oil-for-food investigation added that Cotecna's lawyers may explore a lawsuit against Kojo Annan. 
A spokesman for Socotec, a giant French conglomerate, said the firm's inspections division went out of business two years ago and that there was no immediate information available on Annan's dealings with the firm.