The Car mania – Kofi Annan’s son to refund customs duty
Kojo Annan is the son of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. He bought a Mercedes Benz car in 1998 in his father’s name and got a discount of about 6500 Dollars from Mercedes and a Customs waiver of about 14,000 Dollars in his native Ghana as the car was said to be for the use of an international diplomat. The Secretary General told investigators that he had no idea that his son had bought the car in his name. Yesterday the Son Annan’s lawyer wrote to the Ghana Customs that he would like to pay back the waived customs duties. Of course they are not paying back Mercedes as “they don’t need the money” according to the attorney. The car is said to be not in use now after it met with a bad accident recently.