Senior U.N. aid chief is being investigated over claims he tried to cover up food-for-sex scandal

"A senior United Nations official is under investigation for allegedly trying to suppress a 'food-for-sex' scandal during a refugee crisis.

The deputy director with the UNHCR, Craig Sanders, has been accused of telling a female colleague not to report the alleged rape of a refugee by an aid worker in Chad in 2004 according to claims made to the select committee.

Former aid worker Lori Handrahan claims that Mr Sanders angrily told her that he 'would not have a sex-for-food scandal on my watch'.

The 48-year-old has given evidence to the House of Commons international development committee and The Times about the alleged abuse...

Dr Handrahan said she defied her boss and reported the rape to the UN meeting, but said felt she was 'run out' of the organisation. Her three-month contract was not renewed and said she had several job applications rejected..."