The lawyers argued that he enjoyed immunity from legal action similar to diplomatic immunity afforded internationalcivilservants based on conventions accepted by 118 nations and rules adopted by the IMF itself.
Yet, after the Gulf War it was discovered that these "international civilservants" misused what they had learned at the lAEA to teach their fellow Iraqis how to outwit the lAEA inspections.
Other "ghost workers" include some of the 50, 000 civilservants made redundant in the mid-1990s under pressure from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.