For Riza, the Alliance became a vehicle for quietly returning to the U.N.

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Wolfowitz has already apologized for giving Riza a promotion and unusually large pay increase just before her transfer to the State Department in 2005.

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World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz's bid to keep his job is becoming increasingly difficult amid new allegations related to work his girlfriend, bank employee Shaha Riza, did for a private contractor as the United States was preparing to invade Iraq.

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After a long U.N. career, Riza had resigned in disgrace just a few months earlier, after disclosures by Paul Volcker's Oil-for-Food inquiry that Riza, in violation of his own orders to staff, had overseen the shredding of three years worth of U.N. executive suite documents of "potential relevance" to the investigation.

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Riza later offered himself as the fall guy for Annan's decision, but neither paid any penalty.

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The Bank Mandiri accounts allow the overseas workers to deposit their pay back home and get help with their finances, but their true value lies in the future, says Riza Zulkifli, senior vice president of retail for the bank.

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