Volcker confessed to a reporter from Los Angeles Times that his report had the potential to expose the UN and remove Annan from his post, but when it came to the moment, he said, ‘I felt uncomfortable.’* According to the report, hours before the publication of the Volcker Report, the Secretary General and his lawyer asked Volcker to ‘change the language about the business dealings of Kojo Annan’. When asked whether he knew about the UN Secretary General’s son using the connections of his father to profit by the Oil-for-Food Programme, Volcker said, ‘To this day, I still don’t know.’
