Shock at the United Nations

As reported in the New York Times, the UN Independent Inquiry Committee headed by Paul Volcker has issued a hefty interim report. According to the Volcker report, the UN oil-for-food program was "riddled with political favoritism and mismanagement." In particular, as the NYT reported,

The conduct of Benon V. Sevan, a Cypriot official who ran the program from 1997 until its demise in 2003, was a "grave and continuing conflict of interest" and had "seriously undermined the integrity of the United Nations."

In response to this finding, the UN stated that "the secretary general was shocked at the report's findings about Mr. Sevan."

Kofi Annan's "shock" inevitably reminds one of the famous scene in the movie Casablanca, where Captain Louis Renault, the lovable but corrupt police official played by Claude Rains, closes Rick's cafe under pressure from the Germans:

Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Louis: I'm shocked - shocked - to find gambling is going on in here!
Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
Louis: Oh, thank you very much.