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This just in: Kofi Annan is shocked–SHOCKED–to discover corruption at the UN.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan ordered a massive investigation of the entire U.N. procurement division yesterday amid growing concerns about corruption and irregularities in the awarding of U.N. contracts.

In yet another major organizational shake-up in response to the Iraq oil-for-food scandal, the embattled Annan placed the procurement office under the authority of U.N. Controller Warren Sachs, pending the outcome of a probe into the agency, which awards contracts worth billions of dollars.

The United Nations said in a statement that Annan ordered the probe “due to the seriousness of the situation” raised by last week’s announcement that former U.N. procurement officer Alexander Yakovlev pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to taking bribes from companies seeking U.N. business.

This sounds a lot like Dan Rather when he said he’d “like to break that story” about the fake memo that he presented as news, long after bloggers had already done just that.

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