The Hell No I-Won’t-Go Secretary-General, The Accused UN Auditor and Louise
by Marinka Peschmann, Special to Canada Free Press
Monday, April 4, 2005 
Dileep Nair, the UN auditor whose October 2000 proposal to report Oil-for-Food related matters directly to the Security Council that was blocked by Kofi Annan’s number #2, Canada's Louise Fréchette, will be leaving the United Nations, on April 23, ostensibly disgraced.
Paul Volcker’s Oil-for-Food second interim report, released on Tuesday, accused Singapore's Dileep Nair, the Under-Secretary to the Office of Internal Oversight (OIOS), of misusing Oil-for-Food funds, and violating UN Staff Regulations. Given Mr. Nair’s oversight responsibility within the Organization, he must be held to the highest standards of conduct, concluded Volcker’s findings on Nair.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whose own conduct was found to be inadequate, issued a charge letter against Nair, on Thursday. The Hell No’ I-Won’t-Go Secretary-General announced, We are initiating an independent, third-party review of allegations made against him [Nair] by the Staff Council to determine whether a full, external investigation is warranted. On Tuesday, Annan said he's relieved he's been exonerated by the ongoing Volcker investigation.
Volcker’s inquiry also uncovered that Annan’s former Chef de Cabinet, S. Iqbal Riza, authorized the shredding of UN chronological files for the years 1997, 1998, 1999.  The UN Oil-Food-Program began in 1996.
According to Volcker’s second interim report, Dileep Nair obtained [Oil-for-Food] funding for a Special Assistant position at his office, the UN’s OIOS, by representing that the Special Assistant would be performing functions for the Oil-for-Food Program. The Special Assistant… performed virtually no [Oil-for-Food] related work during the two years that he was funded by the Program.
Over four months ago, the UN Staff Council and Kofi Annan said Nair was innocent.
On November 16, 2004, the UN Staff Council concluded an investigation into Nair’s conduct regarding violations of Staff Regulations and Staff Rules.  Charges of sexual harassment and staff favoritism were also leveled against Nair. After a thorough review of the personnel-related allegations, the Staff Council's investigation, found that no Staff Regulations or Staff Rules were violated in the appointment and promotion of staff in OIOS, and that the relevant personnel procedures were followed and recommended that no further action was necessary in the matter.
Kofi Annan reviewed the Staff Council's report, accepted the findings and recommendations, and informed Dileep Nair of his innocence, adding, He had every confidence that the good work of the Office of Internal Oversight Services under his [Nair’s] leadership will continue.
Incidentally, some 13 years ago, Paul Volcker co-chaired a UN Finance Report. In the report, Volcker concluded; the credibility of the UN will depend on large measure on the effectiveness of its management and the quality of its staff for improvements in its structure and administration. The evidently patient Chief Oil-for-Food investigator admitted, I think that remains true today, at Tuesday's press conference.
Canada's Louise Fréchette and the UN Auditor
According to Volcker’s first interim report, In a letter dated August, 30th 2000, to the Deputy-Secretary General [Louise Fréchette]. Mr. Nair proposed that OIOS report directly to the Security Council on [Oil-for-Food] Program-related matters. As George Russell and Claudia Rosett reported for Fox News, Fréchette intervened directly by telephone to stop United Nations auditors from forwarding their investigations to the UN Security Council.  The UN auditor who Louise Fréchette blocked is Dileep Nair.
Fréchette who doesn't recall telephoning Nair, does not dispute she may have intervened because audits are a management tool to be used only by internal managers.
As Canada Free Press previously reported, Louise Fréchette, is Kofi Annan’s #2. Fréchette served under Prime Minister Paul Martin, from November 1994 to June 1995, under then Minister of Finance Paul Martin, as his Associate Deputy Minister. Canada, the seventh largest contributor to the United Nations, will not investigate the Oil-for-Food Program.
Interview requests to Louise Fréchette’s former boss in 1993, Reid Morden, the former director of the Canadian Security Service, and current investigator for Paul Volcker, have so far been denied.
On Saturday, Kofi Annan released, a statement on the death of Pope John Paul II that reads in part; I was always struck by his [Pope John Paul II] commitment to having the United Nations become, as he said during his address to the General Assembly in 1995, a moral center where all the nations of the world feel at home and develop a shared awareness of being, as it were, a `family of nations’
Marinka Peschmann is a freelance writer whose first book collaboration, the best-selling The Kid Stays In The Picture; was made into a documentary. She's contributed to several books and stories ranging from showbiz and celebrities to true crime and politics.