Alexander Yakovlev was a long serving tenured member of the United Nations procurement department (since 1985). He was involved in the oil-for-food scandal and conflict of interests then dealing with an Italian-based firm IHC Services who also had an office in New York City that employed his son, Dmitry Yakovlev. He is accused by the investigators of taking nearly $1 million in bribes. He also secretly solicited a bribe from a company called Societe Generale de Surveillance S.A., which was seeking an oil inspection contract under oil-for-food. Main article: League of Nations The term United Nations was coined by Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, to refer to the Allies. ... Procurement is the acquisition of goods or services at the best possible total cost of ownership, in the right quantity, at the right time, in the right place for the direct benefit or use of the governments, corporations, or individuals generally via, but not limited to a contract. ... This article is about the year. ... The Oil-for-Food Programme was established by the United Nations in 1996 to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine and the like. ...

Alexander resigned at June 23, 2005. In August 8, 2005 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan waived the diplomatic immunity of Alexander Yakovlev on a request from the U.S. Attorney's Office and Yakovlev apparently had been taken into custody, said Mark Malloch Brown, Annan's chief of staff. June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 191 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A large number of international organizations and other bodies have a Secretary General or Secretary-General as their chief administrative officers or in other administrative capacities. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... United States Attorneys represent the U.S. federal government in United States district court. ... Mark Malloch Brown (born 1953), a British official, is chief of staff to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, appointed 3 January 2005. ... The term Chief of Staff can refer to: The White House Chief of Staff, the highest-ranking member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States. ...

The same day he pleaded guilty to soliciting a bribe under the oil-for-food program, making him the first U.N. official to face criminal charges in connection with the scandal-tainted operation and was released under bond of $400,000. Alexander Yakovlev also pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of wire fraud and money laundering for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from U.N. contractors in his work outside oil-for-food. He could face up to 20 years in prison for each of the three counts. Wire fraud is a legal concept in the United States Code which provides for enhanced penalty of any criminal activity if it is determined that the occurrence of the crime involved electronic communications of any sort, at any phase of the event. ... Money laundering is the practice of engaging in financial transactions in order to conceal the identity, source and destination of the money in question. ...

Sources

• Interim UN report
• http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050808/D8BRSJFG0.html
• http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050809/ap_on_re_us/un_oil_for_food
• http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/un_monitor/guest_commentary/un-corruption-widespread.htm