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NEW YORK (AP) - A prosecutor told a jury Monday that a former United Nations procurement official was a greedy and deceitful diplomat who steered nearly $100 million in contracts to a friend in exchange for cash kickbacks and a luxury apartment.
Deputy U.S. Attorney Cathy Seibel told the jury in her opening statement in Sanjaya Bahel's bribery trial that the government would prove that Bahel secretly helped a Florida friend secure lucrative contracts from 1999 to 2003.
She said the friend, Nishan Kohli of Miami, agreed that his family's businesses would kick back 10 percent of his profits to Bahel if he smoothed the way for them to win contracts to supply the United Nations with everything from laptop computers to engineers.
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