Is this how the UN Oil-For-Food Program was really set up?

Here is a very wierd story, published in the Washington Post today. Are we to believe that this man and his likes were the ones who set up the UN Oil-For-Food program? And then the skimmed off the top?
“South Korean businessman and influence peddler Tongsun Park was sentenced Thursday to five years in [...]

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Today the UN celebrates International Anti-Corruption Day

According to the UN Spokesman, “In a message to mark the occasion, Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, says that, since corruption affects us all, we all have a role to play in stopping it.”
A UN Convention against Corruption came into force one year ago.

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