Two U.N. officials accused of kickbacks, bribes

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The former head of the U.N. oil-for-food program, Benon Sevan, was accused on Monday of receiving nearly $150,000 in kickbacks, and another U.N. official was arrested on charges of pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars from U.N. contractors. 

The U.N.-established Independent Inquiry Committee, headed by former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, said in its third interim report that Sevan, who ran the $67 billion humanitarian program for Iraq, and Alexander Yakovlev, a former U.N. purchasing office, should be prosecuted.