term contract for Tay Keong Tan, a professor at the National University of Singapore, as his special assistant in 2001 using funds from the oil-for-food programme to pay Tan's salary. Tan's main functions were to develop an anti-corruption initiative for the United Nations and review audit reports. Tan apparently received a total of 260,000 dollars. The report said Nair's "misuse of programme funds violated U.N. staff regulations". Oil-for-food funds were reserved for activities related to humanitarian assistance in Iraq, it said. "Given Mr. Nair's oversight responsibilities within the organization, he must be held to the highest standards of conduct," the report said. ---SP 2319 Local Time 2019 GMT
