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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/18/AR2007031801284.html
In Word files:
DynCorp Task Order for Corporate Bank

Coporate Bank task order to Cogim SpA
$ 47,080,426.10
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258919,00.html
Volga-Dnepr’s payments were tallied at the trial by the chief witness against Kuznetsov: Alexander Yakovlev, also a Russian, and a 20-year veteran of the U.N. procurement department, who pled guilty to money laundering and corruption charges in August 2005, after a FOX News story revealed his secret Caribbean bank account.
Without admitting to taking bribes from Volga-Dnepr, Yakovlev testified that he had illegally set up what he described as a private consulting firm to assist companies in preparing bids for U.N. procurement contracts in violation of his U.N. impartiality.
Nor are the Volga-Dnepr contracts the only ones that Yakovlev admitted to “consulting” on during the Kuznetsov trial. The procurement veteran admitted to accepting upwards of $250,000 in 2000 for work he did on successful contracts for an Italian firm, Cogim, which provided prefabricated buildings to U.N. peacekeepers.
Cogim’s top executives were charged in Italy last June in connection with the Yakovlev payments. And Cogim’s name no longer appears on the U.N. vendors’ list as an approved supplier.

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