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UN GATE, June
1 – The United Nations claims to have a zero
tolerance for sexual exploitation by its staff
and peacekeepers, but routinely covers up
their abuses including the rape of children,
withholding basic information which was
provided to the Press under Ban Ki-moon but
not now under Antonio Guterres.
Inner
City Press previously expanded its exclusive
reporting into UNTSO's scandal of public
sex in the UN van, with information from UN
whistleblowers in Jerusalem and New York: "the
men in the UNTSO car have been charged with
transporting a passenger who was not
authorized and also for not co-operating with
the investigation."
Alongside the
cover-up by Antonio Guterres and his
spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming, who refuse Inner City Press' written
questions and ban it from entering to ask
in-person, as state media and retirees are
allowed to do (but don't ask about this),
delay under UN due process rules for sex
abusers but not journalists:
"The Assistant
Secretary-General for Human Resources
Management may seek further information
from any relevant source. Any new additional
information received by the Assistant
Secretary-General must be provided to the
staff member for a further response. The
staff member shall be given two weeks to
respond to such additional information.
The staff member may request, in writing,
additional time to respond."
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Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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UK - Honduras
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Mag
UN GATE, May
24 – The United Nations has hit a new low,
after its now-gone human rights commissioner
Michelle Bachelet withheld her report on
Xinjiang until the very hour she left, after
whitewashing China's genocide against the
Uighurs for her whole term.
To
replace Bachelet, UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres tapped his crony, Volker Turk
formerly of UNHCR then a Guterres promoter.
(Inner City Press back on July 2 predicted
this pro-China move, here).
On May 24,
2023 Turk gave a speech asking for corporate
donations to his Office - or, if he is like
his Boss Guterres, to himself - by giving
examples of what he'd do with it. The words
"Uighur" or "Xinjiang" were of course nowhere
in the pitch. The lone mention of China was
about "civic space;" more space was devoted to
the US. And Qatar? Like Cameroon and Haiti,
not mentioned. The crony doesn't fall far from
the tree.
In November
2022, Volker Turk was entirely silence on
Qatar and human rights, including the 7000
migrant workers they killed building stadia
for the FIFA World Cup. Some human rights
commissioner.
This comes
after Qatar welcomed Volker Turk's appointment
(photo here),
and paid for a large room at the UN in Geneva.
Qatar already
bought Antonio Guterres in New York, where its
state media Al Jazeera - now with its UN
correspondents and alumni singing for the
supper defending the corrupt World Cup -
worked with Guterres' spokesman Stephane
Dujarric to get Inner City Press thrown out, here
On human
rights, Inner City Press previously asked
Volker Turk about the slaughter in Cameroon of
Anglophones by the army of Paul Biya - and
he'd never heard of it. Story
here.
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, May
24 –
The UN
Security
Council among
its Permanent
members has no
African
country. But
there are
three elected
members.
One
of them,
Ghana, on May
24 announced
that with the
other two
(Mozambique
and Gabon) it
will hold a
press stakeout
"to highlight
Africa's
approach
towards
convergence by
the Council
leading to
negotiations
on the
financing of
AU-led Peace
Support
Operations."
The stakeout
will be inside
the UN - from
which Sec-Gen
Antonio
Guterres and
his
spokespeople
Stephane
Dujarric and
Melissa
Fleming ban
Inner City
Press, after
its questions
about
Guterres'
finances.
Inner
City Press has
appealed, but
UN Security
chief Gilles
Michaud hasn't
deigned to
answer. So how
can Inner City
Press attend?
Here
is the invite,
and to whom
and how it was
sent:
From: Solomon
Korbieh
<skorbieh@yahoo.com>
Date:
Wed, May 24,
2023 at
6:44 PM
Subject: MEDIA
STAKEOUT BY
GABON, GHANA
AND MOZAMBIQUE
ON 25TH
MAY(TOMORROW),
2023 AT
10.45AM
To:
Stephane
Dujarric
<dujarric@un.org>,
Farhan Haq
<haqf@un.org>,
melissa.fleming@un.org
<melissa.fleming@un.org>,
AG
<ag@un.org>,
Marcia Soares
Pinto
<soarespinto@un.org>,
David Kaye
<dkaye@law.uci.edu>,
Amina Mohammed
<amina.mohammed@un.org>,
Janos
Tisovszky
<tisovszky@un.org>,
Eihab Omaish
<omaish@un.org>,
Tal Mekel
<mekel@un.org>,
Keishamaza
Rukikaire
<rukikaire@un.org>,
seda.pumpyanskaya@un.org
<seda.pumpyanskaya@un.org>,
corbeta@un.org
<corbeta@un.org>,
Eri Kaneko
<kaneko@un.org>,
achim.steiner@undp.org
<achim.steiner@undp.org>,
abaza@un.org
<abaza@un.org>,
opga@un.org
<opga@un.org>,
Brenden Varma
<varmab@un.org>,
Florencia Soto
Nino-Martinez
<sotonino@un.org>,
MALU
<malu@un.org>,
Monica Grayley
<Grayley@un.org>,
tremblay@un.org
<tremblay@un.org>,
Paulina Kubiak
<kubiakp@un.org>,
courtenay.rattray@un.org
<courtenay.rattray@un.org>,
awada@un.org
<awada@un.org>,
siwen.qian@un.org
<siwen.qian@un.org>,
coutrix@un.org
<coutrix@un.org>,
Matthew R. Lee
Cc:
funca,
ghanaperm@aol.com
<ghanaperm@aol.com>,
info@ghanamissionun.org
<info@ghanamissionun.org>,
Felix Boateng
<felix.boateng@mfa.gov.gh>,
Bismark
Anyanah
<bismarkanyanah@yahoo.com>
Dear
Mr.
Dujarric,
This is to
inform you
that Gabon,
Ghana and
Mozambique
(A3)
would have a
MEDIA STAKEOUT
tomorrow, 25th
May 2023 at
10.45 am at
the Security
Council Press
Area.
As
you may be
aware, the
Security
Council is
scheduled to
have a
briefing on
the
Secretary-General's
Report on
Financing of
African Union
Peace Support
Operations
(AUPSO) at
11.00 am. The
media stakeout
by the A3
seeks to
highlight
Africa's
approach
towards
convergence by
the Council
leading to
negotiations
on the
financing of
AU-led Peace
Support
Operations.
Best
regards.
Solomon Korbieh Minister Plenipotentiary/Spokesperson Permanent Mission of Ghana to the United Nations 19 East 47th Street New York, NY 10017
On Thursday, 3 November 2022 at 11:52:37 GMT-4, Matthew R. Lee wrote: Still banned from UN, for being roughed up on 3 July 2018 while covering the UN Budget Committee meetings I am entitled to cover under MALU Access Guidelines and as applied to all other non resident correspondents). Why is Inner City Press, despite the Quinn Emanual law firm's pro bono letter to Melissa Fleming more than a year ago, still banned from entering to ask these questions? These written question are posed and responses requested pursuant to the until-now broken commitment the the UN will "continue to answer e-mailed questions from Mr Lee" InnerCityPress: hereBy Matthew
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SDNY / UN
GATE, May 16 – Chinese businessman and
fraudster Cary Yan was the subject of a
Federal indictment unsealed on September 2,
2022, in the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New
York.
Using a
UN-affiliated non-governmental organization,
Yan paid bribes in New York to officers of the
Marshall Islands and others. Indictment on
Inner City Press' DocumentCloud here.
In
2018, Inner City Press from inside the UN
reported on Cary Yan's suspicious activities,
(including video here,
and bribe-bought promotion by UNCA here)
as it was reporting on the parallel UN bribery
by Patrick Ho of Ye Jianming's NGO CEFC China
Energy.
On December 1,
2022, Yan and his co-defendant pled guilty.
Inner City Press was there - thread:
[Plea
agreement on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud here]
Guilty plea is
accepted by the judge. Sentencing set for late
Feb but could be earlier since parents' visa
running out.
On March 9,
Yan asked to delay his sentencing from March
28 to May 16.
On March 10, it was granted: "Set/Reset
Hearings as to Cary Yan: Sentencing set for
5/16/2023 at 11:00 AM before Judge Naomi Reice
Buchwald."
Just before
sentencing, Yan in a redacted sentencing
submission asked for time served. The US says
it wants 57 months.
It got 42
months - with 37 of them already served. Inner
City Press was there, thread here:
Now at
sentencing of UN-linked fraudster Cary Yan. He
wants time served. "The Founder" and enablers
still in UN have not been prosecuted
Defense: Cary
Yan went to college in Beijing and wants to
advise NGOs. He has given a lot of money.
Fraud as "anti poverty work" - very UN.
Defense:
The Bureau of Prisons or US Marshals lost Cary
Yan's manuscript. [What, could it be another
expose or how-to manual of corruption in the
UN of Antonio Guterres , pay to play?]
Defense: He
wanted to help people in the Marshall Islands
Judge:
Didn't Mr Yan bribe Mr Lorenzo? [That's
Francis Lorenzo, who's back in the UN, he's in
a book Inner City Press is shepherding toward
publication. UN corruption is expanding]
Yan's
lawyer: US wants 57 months, Probation wants
42. But Cary merits less - time served. The
Roger Ng case was different. [What of Ng Lap
Seng, who bought UN PGA , whose office
under Csaba Korosi still bans Inner City
Press from his UN Civil Society Town Halls
AUSA:
WOGC (scam NGO Inner City Press exposed
before Antonio Guterres banned the
Press from the UN) was all about money. 57
months wouldn't even be the highest FCPA
sentence this year.
Judge has
taken a break. Here's Cary Yan in the UN,
video here
Cary Yan has
less hair now, two lawyers and interpreter.
Where's the blonde go? Judge is back. Yan [in
Chinese] I will be honest
Judge:
Mr Yan is not a public official... The Deputy
Ambassador of the Dominican Republic Francis
Lorenzo-- AUSA: We gave Lorenzo a 5K1
[cooperator's] letter. [Ng Lap Seng got 48
months. UN PGA John Ashe died
under his own barbell]
Judge: Yan has
had 4 heart surguries. He will be deported. I
sentence him to 42 months.
[37 already
served, so five more at MDC then deportation -
to Marshal Islands, whose passport he bought?
And can return to the US?]
More detail on
Substack here
On February 2,
for her February 16 sentencing, Zhou asked for
time served.
On February 9,
the US also asked for time served for Zhou -
in a sentencing submission that references
Francis Lorenzo, already free and back in the
UN, and "the Founder," whom Inner City Press
exposed before being thrown out of the UN and
whom the US has never charged.
On February
15, Zhou got just that: time served. "JUDGMENT
IN A CRIMINAL CASE as to Gina Zhou (2). The
defendant pleaded guilty to count One. Counts
2-5 are dismissed on the motion of the United
States. IMPRISONMENT: Time served. The
defendant should receive full credit for the
time served since her arrest in Thailand on
November 16, 2020. ASSESSMENT: $100.00 due
immediately. (Signed by Judge Naomi Reice
Buchwald on 2/16/2023)."
After Inner
City Press' initial report, Yan retained
Jonathan Bolz, who also represented Patrick
Ho. Word is Yan was extradited in from
Thailand and will be presented before the
assigned District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald,
who also presided over sentencing to 15 years
of UN rapist Karim Elkorany.
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, May
11 – How
corrupt are
United Nations
officials and
the
correspondents
who cover (up
for) them
today?
On
May 9, a
long-time UN
insider named
Colum Lynch,
who has
bounced from
the Washington
Post to
Foreign Policy
and beyond,
ran a
belatedly
rip-off piece
about the UN
Mission in
Western
Sahara, based
off "a
political
problem...
cited in news
reports about
the disputed
territory."
While Lynch,
as is his
M.O., refused
to name or
credit the
"news
reports," he
named and used
the problem:
"a Russian
national named
Alexander
Ivanko, was
involved in a
romantic
relationship
with a local
Moroccan
woman."
There
is a major
problem: Inner
City Press in
2021 first published
this
information,
and has
remained
banned by the
UN until this
day. For
example, Inner
City Press in
December 2021
published,
available then
as now in
Google:
"Inner
City Press has
been contacted
by UN
whistleblowers
outraged at
what they say
is already a
pro-Morocco
scandal at
MINURO under -
literally -
Ivanko. They
tell Inner
City Press,
none of whose
questions the
UN will answer
even to
confirm or
deny, that
Ivanko has
struck up a
predatory
relationship
with a
Moroccan woman
who was
recruited into
MINURSO by
now-rewarded
predator Colin
Stewart.
Inner
City Press on
the morning of
December 20
put this
question and
another -
about UNRWA
and
Afghanistan -
to all UN
spokespeople...
Inner City
Press has the
victim's name
but, as it
does in the
current US v.
Ghislaine
Maxwell case
on which
Guterres
refuses to
answer why he
had a
representative,
Amir Dossal,
on Maxwell's
Terramar
project board,
it is not
publish the
name - in the
case of the
UN, for now).
The
whistleblowers
also telling
recount that
given his lack
of commitment
to
decolonization,
Guterres told
Grandi -
subject now of
an Afghanistan
and UNRWA
scoop - to
keep UNHCR's
Western Sahara
work
"sleeping" for
now. Forever,
as things
stand. The UN
under Guterres
is less and
less
accountable,
less and less
transparent."
Its press
corpse, too.
Colum Lynch
has previously
ripped off
Inner City
Press, while
it was still
in the UN.
And
when UNSG
Antonio
Guterres and
his spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric -
quoted as
"Mister" by
Lynch - had
Inner City
Press roughed
up and thrown
out of the UN,
it was covered
by the
Columbia
Journalism
Review and
The
Independent,
for example,
but not
a word
from Lynch or
Foreign Policy
or his other
employers.
Lynch
also lets off
the hook and
covers up for
many others in
(and left out)
of this story.
But that's a
story for
another day.
We cover
the SDNY now,
most recently
Carroll v.
Trump (booklet
here)
- but this
type of
journalistic
theft and
collusion
cannot and
will not go
unremarked.
Inner
City Press has
appealed
to re-enter
the UN and
will not rest.
Watch this
site.
***
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, May 3
–
On World Press
Freedom Day,
the United
Nations of
Antonio
Guterres is
more
hypocritical
than
usual.
While UN
Global
Communications
chief Melissa
Fleming put
out a video
of Guterres
equating what
he (and she)
characterize
as
disinformation
as the threat
to press
freedom,
Guterres has banned
Inner City
Press from
entering the
UN since 2018,
when it exposed
the omission
of links to
bribery firm
CEFC China
Energy from
his financial
disclosure.
Law
firm Quinn
Emanuel, on a
pro bono
basis, wrote
to Fleming and
the UN
Correspondents
Association
(with state
media of China
on its board
of directors)
seeking a
dialogue to
reinstate
Inner City
Press.
There
has been no
answer, nor to
an appeal
to Guterres
head of
security
Gilles
Michaud.
Still,
ill-informed
media run the
Guterres video
without
commentary.
Disinformation,
indeed.
***
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, April
28 – In
the UN of
Antonio
Guterres,
there is
scandal after
scandal, each
one covered up
and/or ignored
by the state
media and
scribes they
let in, while
banning the
Press.
From
the e-mail bag
this week,
while
Spokespeople
Stephane
Dujarric and
Melissa
Fleming
refused all of
Inner City
Press'
questions:
Dear
Matthew
Russell Lee:
Tell the
Daniela Bas
story. This
director of
social affairs
got fired from
DESA for
corruption and
is running a
huge
consultancy
firm now. The
UN didn't
bother to
explain to
anyone why she
was fired.
We
know very
little. Over
the weekend we
were told that
she was not
coming in
again (but she
was in the
office on
Friday) and
that John
Wilmoth will
be the acting
director.
She
was known to
be very
corrupt. She
appointed her
brother and
her sister in
law's company
to do
diversity
training at
the UN. She
was accused of
racism. She
tried to get
in people that
were her
friends and
family and not
qualified. She
made
statements
about no-one
being able to
fire her
because she is
in a
wheelchair.
In
the end, she
was apparently
fired because
she took paid
contracts, in
addition to
her job, to do
life coaching
through an
NGO. She
now runs a
company where
she prides
herself on her
history with
the UN.
Proudly
announcing
that she 'was
a senior
director' at
DESA.
Despite
the fact that
she should
have left with
her tail
between her
legs, she
walks proud
and tall. The
UN has not
said a word to
any of the
staff.
Nothing.
Zilch. Her
staff were
left in the
dark, stunned
when she
left.
Not sure
whether you're
going to get
any more
information
but many,
many, many of
us are waiting
to see what
you print.
Good luck."
Well, the UN
despite
Dujarric's on
camera promise
to answer
Inner City
Press' written
questions
doesn't.
Daneila Bas
who smiled
answering
Inner City
Press'
questions
until it was
thrown out did
nothing after.
But we
continue to
report. Watch
this site.
***
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, April
17 – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
accommodates and supports not only China but
Russia, leaks (allegedly by Jack Teixeira of
the Massachusetts Air National Guard) now
confirm that even the US Administration knows.
But
there are more than leaks: "some of Guterres’s
conversations, the documents indicate, were
collected under the FISA law."
While
reporting from inside the UN, Inner City Press
exposed Guterres concealing his links to
convicted UN bribery firm CEFC China Energy.
Guterres responded by having Inner City Press
roughed up by UN Security and banned ever
since. On April 17, 2023, his spokesman
Stephane Dujarric refused Inner City Press'
written questions, even as it covered
the illegal Chinese government "police
station" on East Broadway in Manhattan.
Guterres SHOULD be subject to a warrant, and
not only for surveillance.
Inner
City Press has reported
on Guterres' connivance with China (and its
convicted bribery arm CEFC China Energy),
before Guterres banned
it from the UN where his spokespeople Stephane
Dujarric and Melissa Fleming refuses its
written questions on these and other
topics.
Also
exposed is Guterres deputy Amina J. Mohammed,
trashing Kenya's Ruto. Amina Mohammed
says that Kenya's president, William Ruto, is
"ruthless" and that she "doesn't trust him."
She was
previously exposed
as backdating CITES certificates for
endangered rosewood from Nigeria and Cameroon
to China, and colluded in Guterres' ban on
Inner City Press. Now what?
Inner
City Press has appealed
its ban, to UN Security boss Gilles Michaud as
PGA President Csaba Korosi's spokesperson
Paulina Kubiak directed.
Still, no answer.
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, April
13 – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
accommodates and supports not only China but
Russia, leaks (allegedly by Jack Teixeira of
the Massachusetts Air National Guard) now
confirm that even the US Administration knows.
"Guterres
emphasized his efforts to improve Russia's
ability to export," the leak says, "even if
that involves sanctioned Russian entities or
individuals... [Guterres is] undermining
broader efforts to hold Moscow accountable for
its actions in Ukraine."
But why does
the US Administration continue to publicly
praise Guterres, and allow him to ban media he
doesn't like, as he helps Russia sell its
ammonia and China control more and more of the
UN?
Inner
City Press has reported
on Guterres' connivance with China (and its
convicted bribery arm CEFC China Energy),
before Guterres banned
it from the UN where his spokespeople Stephane
Dujarric and Melissa Fleming refuses its
written questions on these and other
topics.
Also
exposed is Guterres deputy Amina J. Mohammed,
trashing Kenya's Ruto. Amina Mohammed
says that Kenya's president, William Ruto, is
"ruthless" and that she "doesn't trust him."
She was
previously exposed
as backdating CITES certificates for
endangered rosewood from Nigeria and Cameroon
to China, and colluded in Guterres' ban on
Inner City Press. Now what?
Inner
City Press has appealed
its ban, to UN Security boss Gilles Michaud as
PGA President Csaba Korosi's spokesperson
Paulina Kubiak directed.
Still, no answer.
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
UN GATE
EXCLUSIVE, April 3 – How
corrupt is
today's United
Nations, under
Antonio
Guterres?
Well,
consider
UNRWA, under
Philippe
Lazzarini.
Inner City
Press for two
days has asked
Guterres'
spokespeople
Stephane
Dujarric and
Melissa
Fleming -- the
second day
cc-ing
Lazzarini
himself -
about
complaints and
evidence that
whistleblowers
have provided
to Inner City
Press about
what is
formally
knowns as the
United Nations
Relief and
Works Agency
for Palestine
Refugees in
the Near East.
No response at
all, while
Dujarric
laughs and
services state
media and his
partners in
censorship,
with whom he
worked to
target and now
ban Inner
City Press.
So
here's some of
the story,
with more to
come -
On
April 3, 2023,
this:
"Dear
Matthew,
Thank you
again for
continuing to
be supportive
of staff in
pain and for
showing how
the UN has
truly become
the private
farm of those
who are
connected to
the SG and his
inner
circle.
Member States
must know
about these
actions.
Very much
similar to
these actions
are happening
at other UN
agencies and
missions.
OIOS, Ethics
offices are
only used as
tools to help
those in power
get away with
their
violations.
Instead of
offering to
give best
practice
examples to
host
governments,
the UN is now
allowing
corrupt
governments to
proceed with
their illegal
actions.
Most host
governments
may be aware
of those
actions at the
UN but keep
silent because
the UN also
stays quiet
about their
violations.
Please publish
this leaked
email in the
attached
document.
This email is
from a Chief
of HR at ESCWA
sent to the
ASG for HR
Martha Helena
Lopez and
copied to the
Chef de
Cabinet of
Antonio
Guterres, OIOS
and the Ethics
Office
denounces the
grave
violations,
retaliation
and improper
conduct of the
Executive
Secretary of
ESCWA and yet
no action is
taken by the
Secretary-General
to hold her
accountable.
This is the UN
of Antonio
Guterres.
Instead of
holding the ES
accountable,
the ASG of HR
was busy two
weeks ago to
assist her
with her plan
to allow a
senior staff
accused of
fraud and
sexual
harassment of
resigning
instead of
being
dismissed."
Here
is the letter,
freely
available on
Inner City
Press'
DocumentCloud
here
Previously
we wrote, and
see below:
Dear
Matthew
Russell Lee /
Inner City
Press: We are
a group of
UNRWA staff
who are
witnessing
daily
violations and
abuses and are
unable to do
anything about
it due to
bullying and
fear of
retaliation by
the senior
management.
We have
several
documented
cases of abuse
and fraud by
senior
directors who
are protected
by the
commissioner
general.
We saw your
reporting and
we are asking
if you are
interested to
write about
such cases in
order for us
to disseminate
wider once
these issues
are
reported.
Examples:
1- A Senior
Director was
recruited at
D1 level when
he failed the
P5 interview
10 months
earlier.
This was a
direct
intervention
of Christian
Saunders when
he was acting
USG of the
Agency.
2-
That same
Senior
Director who
is a former
colleague and
a friend of
the director
of HR bullies
staff.
When staff
report those
actions to the
ethics office
and to the
internal audit
department,
the complaints
are
ignored.
3-
That same
Director
announces a
vacancy in his
department and
interviews
candidates.
He selects his
preferred
candidate and
makes her an
offer.
When she
refuses the
fees, he
decides to
cancel the
vacancy and
lies to the HR
department
saying, no
candidate was
found
suitable.
45
days later, he
announces the
same vacancy
at 300%
increase of
the initial
salary.
When HR asks
him to
interview
candidates, he
says, no
because he had
selected a
candidate from
previous
interviews.
Head of HR
because of his
close
friendship
with the
director
(formerly
colleagues at
UNICEF), he
agrees.
WE have copies
of the two
contracts with
same ToRs but
different
amounts of
fees.
4- Tribunal
judgment calls
for
accountability
with two
persons
(Director of
HR and deputy
director of
Syria field
office)
because they
knowingly
offered a
contract to an
unqualified
candidate who
is proven to
have false
information on
her
PhP/CV.
Nothing
happens.
5-
A staff member
seeks
protection
against
retaliation
from the
ethics
office.
That request
is ignored for
months.
When the staff
members
provide
additional
concrete solid
evidence of
harassment, he
is granted
protection.
The evidence
is very strong
and qualifies
for a
dismissal.
The case is
forwarded for
investigation
without
putting the
staff on any
preventive
action.
Harassment and
bullying
continues
knowing that
the
investigation
will lead to
nothing.
6- Report of
two
independent
consultants
show how
senior
management is
bullying staff
with a strong
report.
The report is
hidden and
nothing
happens.
On the
morning of
February 6,
Inner City
Press sent the
above for
comment to
dozens of UN
officials, and
Malta's
Mission to the
UN under
Vanessa
Frazier, as
UNSC president
for February.
No answer at
all.
In
late March,
more: "Dear
Matthew,
This time, the
case is about
ESCWA in
Lebanon.
A dirty deal
is about to be
sealed in NY
between two of
the top
Executives.
At ESCWA,
OHRM, OIOS and
the Executive
Secretary of
ESCWA colluded
together to
facilitate for
a Director of
Administration
at D-1 level
charged with
sexual
harassment and
fraud, to stay
on special
leave with
full pay for a
year and half
to allow him
to reach
retirement age
and submit his
resignation
closer to
retirement.
With the
current
special post
adjustment in
Beirut of
almost 116 %
this Director
instead of
being
dismissed has
been
compensated by
staying at
home for two
years with an
approximate
salary of
20,000 USD
while enjoying
all benefits
and
entitlements.
The Executive
Secretary has
traveled
earlier this
week to UNHQ
to seal the
deal with
Office of
Human
Resources and
to allow a
discreet
resignation
instead of a
dismissal.
This is the UN
of Antonio
Guterres. This
is the
Accountability
Framework for
sexual
harassment and
fraud. This is
the justice
for survivors
of sexual
harassment.
Your urgent
attention may
put an end to
these illegal
actions."
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, March
30 – In the UN
system a big wig from
Portugal is being targeted
by the US. But he's the
wrong Portuguese to be
targeted, and few will say
it.
Just as
Antonio Guterres, the UN
Secretary General who bans
from all UN premises the
Press which questioned his
failure to include his link
to UN bribery firm China
Energy Fund Committee in his
public financial
disclosures, through the
Gulbenkian Foundation from
which he took money, give
the UNOPS job to a
Portuguese crony, the US
guns for IOM.
Amy Pope,
the deputy director there
since 2021, wants the top
job, is challenging the
re-election of her boss,
Director-General António
Vitorino.
Big Boss
Tony Guterres doesn't like
it.
But not
wanting to fight an
Administration who has left
him more unaccountable than
the bank regulators who
coddled Silicon Valley Bank
to the end, Guterres has
gotten passive-aggressive
revenge.
From his
spokesman / censor Stephane
Dujarric, who has refused
all written questions from
Inner City Press despite an
on-camera statement
that he would answer, this:
"United Nations
Secretary-General António
Guterres announced today the
appointment of Jorge Moreira
da Silva of Portugal as
Executive Director of the
United Nations Office for
Project Services. Moreira da
Silva was the Minister of
Environment, Energy and
Spatial Planning of Portugal
from 2013 to 2015 and
Visiting Full Professor at
the Lisbon University.
Previously he was Senior
Adviser to the President of
Portugal on Science and
Environment (2006-2009),
Secretary of State for
Environment and Spatial
Planning (2004-2005),
Secretary of State for
Science and Higher Education
(2003-2004), and as a Member
of the Portuguese
Parliament. Mr.
Moreira da Silva graduated
from the University of
Porto, Portugal, with a
degree in Electrical and
Computer
Engineering."
Yes, in
Guterres' UN, the
engineering of corruption.
We'll have more on this.
***
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Complaint
UN GATE, March
23 – After the Burma coup regime purported to
fired its New York-based UN ambassador U Kyaw
Moe Tun for his speech in New York in the
usually scripted UN General Assembly, two
Burmese were criminally charged with trying to
kill him. One was been detained, as
exclusively live tweeted by Inner City Press,
below.
On August 11,
20 year-old Ye Hein Zaw, who with a Burmese
interpreter got his income approved on April 6
as low enough for free counsel hired a private
attorney, one who is described
as a Wall Street lawyer half of whose clients
are French: Matthew Galluzzo.
On
December 10, a guilty plea: today the guilty
plea of YE HEIN ZAW, a citizen of Myanmar, for
his role in a conspiracy to assault and make a
violent attack upon Myanmar’s Permanent
Representative to the United Nations.
ZAW pled guilty today in White Plains federal
court before U.S. District Judge Philip M.
Halpern.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “As he
admitted in court today, Ye Hein Zaw
participated in a plot to injure or kill
Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations in
a planned attack that was to take place on
American soil. Zaw now awaits sentencing
for his crime. I commend the tireless
efforts of our law enforcement partners at all
levels of government to ensure the safety of
foreign diplomats and officials in the United
States and bring the perpetrators of this plot
to
justice.”
According to the Information to which ZAW pled
guilty, the complaint that was filed in this
case, and statements made during court
proceedings:
Between at least in or about July 2021 through
at least on or about August 5, 2021, ZAW, a
citizen of Myanmar residing in New York,
conspired with others to injure or kill
Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the
United Nations (the “Ambassador”).
During the conspiracy, a co-conspirator
communicated with an arms dealer in Thailand
(the “Arms Dealer”) who sells weapons to the
Burmese military, which overthrew Myanmar’s
civilian government in or about February
2021. In the course of those
conversations, the co-conspirator and the Arms
Dealer agreed on a plan in which the
co-conspirator would hire attackers to hurt
the Ambassador in an attempt to force the
Ambassador to step down from his post.
If the Ambassador did not step down, then the
Arms Dealer proposed that the attackers hired
by the co-conspirator would kill the
Ambassador.
Shortly after agreeing on the plan, ZAW
contacted the co-conspirator by cellphone and,
using a money transfer app, transferred
approximately $4,000 to the co-conspirator as
an advance payment on the plot to attack the
Ambassador. Later, during a recorded
phone conversation, ZAW and the co-conspirator
discussed how the planned attackers would
require an additional $1,000 to conduct the
attack on the Ambassador in Westchester
County, and, for an additional payment, the
attackers could, in substance, kill the
Ambassador. In response, ZAW agreed, in
substance, to pay the additional $1,000 and to
try to obtain the additional money. ZAW
is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Halpern
on May 10, 2022."
On March 16,
2022, this: "STIPULATION IN SUPPORT OF
APPLICATION FOR 8TH OR SUBSEQUENT ORDER OF
CONTINUANCE AND 8TH ORDER OF CONTINUANCE as to
Phyo Hein Htut. Time excluded from 3/16/2022
until 4/13/2022. (Signed by Magistrate Judge
Judith C. McCarthy on 3/16/2022)"
Jump cut to
March 2023, when Htut is approaching a July 10
trial in SDNY in White Plains. He has asked
for US public money to put on a witness from
Myanmar, who would say Htut was a pro
democracy activist. The US said if the unnamed
witness is deposed, it should be in White
Plains. Then, two sealed documents.
Burma
did not speak at the UNGA High Level Week,
from which UNSG Antonio Guterres and PGA
Abdulla Shahid banned Inner City Press.
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
March 22 – The United Nations, exempting
itself from all laws including about press
freedom and whistleblower protection, under SG
Antonio Guterres not only fires staff who
criticize Guterres and ousts
journalists which report on him.
Now
Guterres' misuse of UN Security to physically
bar his critics from entry, ostensibly as
being threatening, has spread from New York to
Geneva.
In July
2018, Guterres had Inner City Press physically
roughed up and ousted as it reported on his
deal with the UN Fifth (Budget) Committee
then-chair Cameroon to remain silent about
Paul Biya's slaughter of Anglophones in
exchange for financial favors in the
Committee.
Since then, a
total ban on re-entry has been in place,
despite among other things a pro bono letter
from the Quinn Emanuel law firm (here),
cc-ed to the so-called UN Correspondents
Association and the US State Department.
Now from
Geneva Inner City Press learns that UN
whistleblower Emma Reilly, who expose the UN
giving the names of Chinese dissidents set to
testify there to the Chinese CCP government,
had not only been fired by Guterres, but now
banned from entry to give a speech, by
Guterres' hand-picked "Human Rights"
Commissioner Volker Turk.
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE, March 14 – How corrupt
is today's UN?
Well, on March
14 UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres gave
a top UN job to a longtime member and
supporter of Syria's Assad government,
Abdallah Al Dardari.
UN
spokesman Stephane Dujarric, who refuses to
answer even the written questions of Inner
City Press he and Guterres had banned from the
UN, announced " the appointment of Abdallah Al
Dardari of Syria as Assistant
Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and
Director, Regional Bureau for Arab States of
the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP). He was Chairman of the State Planning
Commission in Syria, until he became Deputy
Prime Minister for Economic
Affairs."
This is today's UN...
***
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
UN GATE, March 10 – Hypocrisy
and careerism
are nothing
new in the
UN. Now
Human Rights
Watch has a
new executive
director
Tirana Hassan
- and the
press
conference was
limited to
members of a
group with
Chinese state
media on its
board and
Iran's IRIB
as a member,
which worked
to throw the
Press out of
the UN, the
United Nations
Correspondents
Association.
That Tirana
Hassan was
colluding with
an
organization
which bans
Press -
actually two,
the UN and its
UN or UN
Censorship
Alliance - was
known to her:
she follows
Inner City
Press on
Twitter, and
her UN rep was
part of
getting Inner
City Press
ousted from
UNCA (for
exposing corruption
of the
organization's
then
President) and
then ousted
from the UN
(natch -
Antonio
Guterres' undisclosed
financial link
to bribery
firm CEFC
China Energy).
Now
on March 10
HRW trumpets
that two of
its staff have
been banned
from Bahrain.
Fine, we'll
report it. But
note that HRW
has been fine
with and
colluded in
the UN's ban
of Press.
This
UNCA and its
executive
committee
member are so
arrogant they
didn't even
respond to an
inquiry
about their
position on UN
access from
the Quinn
Emanuel law
firm,
representing
Inner City
Press pro
bono, here.
Birds of a
feather.
Here was the
promotion:
"Human Rights
Watch is
pleased to
invite members
of the United
Nations
Correspondents
Association to
an in-person
press
conference at
UN
Headquarters
on Thursday,
March 9, 2023,
at 2:00 p.m.
EST. In
her debut
press
appearance at
UN
headquarters,
Human Rights
Watch’s acting
executive
director,
Tirana Hassan,
will discuss
and take
questions on
the main human
rights
challenges for
2023. Who:
Tirana Hassan,
acting
executive
director Louis
Charbonneau,
UN
director
When:
Thursday,
March 9, 2023.
Where: UNCA
Room (S-310)
at UN
Headquarters.
This press
conference is
open to all
UNCA members."
Open to UNCA
members,
largely state
media and
retirees.
HRW's UN rep
also worked
to get Inner
City Press
banned from
the UN, and
made false
copyright claims to cover
up his
role. Will
Tirana Hassan
be any
different? An
appeal is
pending, here
- it is a
litmus case.
This is
today's UN -
hours after
the event,
there was no
video, and
that only
story from an
aggregation
site and only
on Nicaragua.
They claim
they spoke on
China - in
secret, to a
group with
CCTV on the
board.
Corrupt.
***
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
Book
UN GATE, March
1 – With Mozambique taking over presidency of
the UN Security Council on March 1, 2023, on
February 28 Inner City Press wrote to the
Mozambique Mission to the UN to request in
advance access to its March 1 press conference
by Ambassador Pedro Comissário Afonso.
To
submit the request, Inner City Press wrote to
the Mozambique Mission at its UN Blue Book
address and at the UN email addresses listed
by its purported partner - that is, mozambique
at un dot int and mozambique dote unmission at
gmail dot com
From the
Mozambique Mission, nothing at all. The
Mission is not on Twitter or other social
media. The Ambassador dodges a question about
a trip or junket to DRC, and said the UNSC's
failure does not impact its credibility.
Because it's already shot? Video here.
Inner
City Press asked the Mozambique Mission, and
the UN, about the MONUSCO scandal - sex for UN
Volunteer jobs paid with taxpayers' funds - in
the DRC Congo. Inner City Press exclusive here.
Also: "On December 2, 2022 I was told to file
an appeal with DSS and I did on December 5 -
you should ensure response (there has been
none) and granting. See here."
This
while Inner City Press is banned
from entry, which it had for years until it
exposed UN corruption. No response to this
July 2021 appeal. Impunity.
Inner
City Press will be covering the Mozambique
presidency, quite actively, this month.
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Eastern
Front
UN GATE, Feb
21 – There
is much to say
about the
now-full year
of war in
Ukraine. But
the focus here
is on the
total failure
of the United
Nations, and
even more of
its Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres.
Guterres, who
has a pattern
of being
obsequious to
strongmen like
China's Xi,
with whom he
glad-handed at
the Beijing
Olympics
without saying
a world about
the genocide
against the
Uighurs in
Xinjiang,
initially told
his staff not
to call what
happened in
Ukraine an
invasion.
Once
he was outed,
he pushed
forward to try
to help sell
Russian
ammonia,
through a
Houston-based
commodities
firm, no less.
Thus to keep
the UN
Security
Council's
Permanent Five
members
content. The
war
continues.
When
questioned
about his
actions -
Inner City
Press asked
about
Guterres'
cover up of
his links to
convicted UN
briber China
Energy Fund
Committee, and
how he chose
the
Houston-based
firm - his
response,
through
"Department of
Global
Communications"
chief Melissa
Fleming, as
been to keep
Inner City
Press banned
from entry.
His
spokesperson
Stephane
Dujarric
refuses all of
Inner City
Press' written
questions.
Now UN General
Assembly
president
Csaba Korosi,
who followed
suit and
blocked Inner
City Press
from his
"Civil Society
Town Hall,"
will hold an
entirely
symbolic UNGA
meeting Feb 22
and 23, and
perhaps 24.
His
spokesperson
Paulina Kubiak
told Inner
City Press it
could appeal
the ban - but
UN DSS chief
Gilles Michaud
has entirely
ignored the
December 5,
2022
appeal.
How long will
those with
unrealistic
and/or
self-serving
dreams about
the UN allow
Guterres to
continue
this?
On February 20, Presidents' Day in the US, Joe Biden showed up in Kyev. On November 21, NRC said One year on from the start of the Ukraine war, NRC has found that seven out of ten refugees who fled to Poland, Moldova and Romania said they are struggling to make ends meet. As President Biden prepares to speak in Warsaw later today [Feb 21] NRC is calling on host countries and international donors to not forget about the plight of refugees.. [But Tony's UN has moved on, while still conniving to help sell Russian ammonia through Trammo or otherwise]. More respondents in Poland and Moldova report having moved to substandard housing to reduce their costs compared to those in Romania, and relatively more people in Moldova – particularly the Roma community – have resorted to borrowing money since they fled Ukraine. Usurious nations.. More responses follow. Watch this site.
***
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
UN GATE, Feb
18 – How corrupt is today's
United Nations under Antonio
Guterres? The head man
files
incomplete financial
disclosure,
then throws
out the
Press that asks
about it. PGA Csaba
Korosi follows
suit and bans Inner
City Press
from his
"Civil Society
Town Hall,"
which UN DSS
Head Gilles
Michaud
ignores the appeal
the PGA's
spokesperson
Paulina Kubiak
said to file.
No answers, so
more stories.
Here's today's,
from
whistleblower:
"Hi
Matt, We know you'll
get this out there for us.
The drama in the UN never
ends, just changes positions
like the game of musical
chairs . . . It's
pointless reporting through
the internal channels since
Justice is rarely served
especially when it's seniors
being exposed. What the so
called investigating entity
(OIOS) does is, they
delegate the Case to the
accused persons
organization, so a team of
Legal officers who have no
idea what investigation is
all about, are the ones who
determine the Case!
There's
a previous incident where a
hiring manager in UNEP got a
crooked colleague to change
assessment results of her
preferred candidate, one Ms.
Atifa Kassam, (who had
otherwise failed the
assessment) so that she made
it to the interview and
subsequently got the job, a
P3 post. . . fair and
transparent recruitment
indeed? Similar story
for a GS-4 position (still
in UNEP) where all
candidates failed the
technical assessment, but
the crooked lead panelist
opted to cook the test
results and proceed to the
oral interviews with a bunch
of his preferred candidates.
Correct procedure should
have been to cancel the
process and start over but .
. . so someone somewhere in
the UN system is earning a
salary in a position they
did not rightfully get?
That's the United Nations
Matt.
UN
talks of mandatory GGST
certification for General
Service posts right? The
list of staff who've skewed
their way through into the
system without GGST
certification is
endless. Perhaps you
could get us answers from
USG-DMSPC Catherine Pollard,
or ASG-OHRM Martha Lopez and
tell us why? (Casing example
is one HRO, Feezah
Kyambadde, who is well known
for bypassing candidates
without GGST certification
into the system). And
guess what, in UNEP again,
one Annette Waweru,
facilitated a junior staff
getting "exceptional
approval" to take the GGST a
6th time . . . and
"miraculously" got the post
of Finance and Budget
Assistant!
Well, "Policy"
says only 5 attempts for the
GGST is allowed, but how
come this staffer got an
extra chance? Could others
also be given 'that extra
chance' to try?. This is
what free and fair
recruitment is all about?
Please get us answers from
USG-DOS Atul Khare.
And just so that the world
knows, you can be
interviewed as early as 3 or
4am for a job in the UN, and
still not be selected for
it, despite being the best
candidate!
Matt, if
you could get your hands on
the raw audio recording [Ed.'s note: please
send it to us, it will go straight
unto Soundcloud
after another
non-response from
corupt UN
Spokesperson Stephane
Dujarric and
Melissa Fleming)
for
the interview of this
position you'll notice
something with the 2
candidate being interviewed.
Clearly, she was reading
from a pre-written script
and in passing, even
mentions having had a
meeting with the panel chair
the previous night! What
does that tell you about her
selection to the post? Try
getting answers from the
UNEP Chief of Staff - Rafael
Peralta or Chief of HR -
Carlos Serrano (good luck if
either assents
to releasing the truth . .
.). The post JO:140108 was
for a Director.
And still on
the UNEP Director position
just mentioned, using your
network, if you could
discreetly get in touch with
the Japanese Ambassador to
the UN in New York, and let
him know that their national
(Yoko Watanabe, UNDP) with
over 20 years experience in
the UN, was short changed!
She was the best candidate
and the panel had agreed on
her selection, but her name
was changed by the chief
panelist at the last minute,
and an American with just 2
years in the UN from USAID
was selected instead. The
raw recordings can prove it
and those present during her
interview, if brave enough,
can attest to what
transpired behind the
scenes. It'd be a waste of
precious time reporting this
to the OIOS, nothing will
happen. Maybe the Ambassador
could take SG Guterres
head-on for answers and for
Justice to be served for
their national. Shift
focus to New York
Headquarters where bending
rules rather than enforcing
them is the norm . . .
Policy, Rules,
Regulations are compromised
by the very persons in
senior positions to enforce
them. Example, staff members
share their login
credentials with Interns and
make these poor, overworked,
unpaid colleagues do their
donkey work for them -
including recruitment of
staff! Yes Matt, it's
happening right in the UN
Headquarters. Never mind
that the "Policy" says
non-staff (interns, UNVs,
Contractors and Consultants)
should not be involved in
recruitment! Casing example
is a section called
Disarmament, Demobilization
and Reintegration Unit
headed by one Tomas
Kontogeorgos. Could you
please check if UN IT boss,
ASG Bernard Mariano, is
aware what his 'senior
colleagues' are up to,
sharing their login
credentials with interns who
are never paid despite their
credible output? Oh
boy Matt, there's
stench and rot behind the
glamour of the UN logo.
Keep it
coming. And watch this
site.
***
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
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Honduras
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UN GATE
EXCLUSIVE, Feb 7 – How
corrupt is
today's United
Nations, under
Antonio
Guterres?
Well,
consider
UNRWA, under
Philippe
Lazzarini.
Inner City
Press for two
days has asked
Guterres'
spokespeople
Stephane
Dujarric and
Melissa
Fleming -- the
second day
cc-ing
Lazzarini
himself -
about
complaints and
evidence that
whistleblowers
have provided
to Inner City
Press about
what is
formally
knowns as the
United Nations
Relief and
Works Agency
for Palestine
Refugees in
the Near East.
No response at
all, while
Dujarric
laughs and
services state
media and his
partners in
censorship,
with whom he
worked to
target and now
ban Inner
City Press.
So
here's some of
the story,
with more to
come:
Dear
Matthew
Russell Lee /
Inner City
Press: We are
a group of
UNRWA staff
who are
witnessing
daily
violations and
abuses and are
unable to do
anything about
it due to
bullying and
fear of
retaliation by
the senior
management.
We have
several
documented
cases of abuse
and fraud by
senior
directors who
are protected
by the
commissioner
general.
We saw your
reporting and
we are asking
if you are
interested to
write about
such cases in
order for us
to disseminate
wider once
these issues
are
reported.
Examples:
1- A Senior
Director was
recruited at
D1 level when
he failed the
P5 interview
10 months
earlier.
This was a
direct
intervention
of Christian
Saunders when
he was acting
USG of the
Agency.
2-
That same
Senior
Director who
is a former
colleague and
a friend of
the director
of HR bullies
staff.
When staff
report those
actions to the
ethics office
and to the
internal audit
department,
the complaints
are
ignored.
3-
That same
Director
announces a
vacancy in his
department and
interviews
candidates.
He selects his
preferred
candidate and
makes her an
offer.
When she
refuses the
fees, he
decides to
cancel the
vacancy and
lies to the HR
department
saying, no
candidate was
found
suitable.
45
days later, he
announces the
same vacancy
at 300%
increase of
the initial
salary.
When HR asks
him to
interview
candidates, he
says, no
because he had
selected a
candidate from
previous
interviews.
Head of HR
because of his
close
friendship
with the
director
(formerly
colleagues at
UNICEF), he
agrees.
WE have copies
of the two
contracts with
same ToRs but
different
amounts of
fees.
4- Tribunal
judgment calls
for
accountability
with two
persons
(Director of
HR and deputy
director of
Syria field
office)
because they
knowingly
offered a
contract to an
unqualified
candidate who
is proven to
have false
information on
her
PhP/CV.
Nothing
happens.
5-
A staff member
seeks
protection
against
retaliation
from the
ethics
office.
That request
is ignored for
months.
When the staff
members
provide
additional
concrete solid
evidence of
harassment, he
is granted
protection.
The evidence
is very strong
and qualifies
for a
dismissal.
The case is
forwarded for
investigation
without
putting the
staff on any
preventive
action.
Harassment and
bullying
continues
knowing that
the
investigation
will lead to
nothing.
6- Report of
two
independent
consultants
show how
senior
management is
bullying staff
with a strong
report.
The report is
hidden and
nothing
happens.
On the
morning of
February 6,
Inner City
Press sent the
above for
comment to
dozens of UN
officials, and
Malta's
Mission to the
UN under
Vanessa
Frazier, as
UNSC president
for February.
No answer at
all. Now this
was sent,
nothing, so
publishing:
UNRWA Snr.
Management
ignores
accountability.
Staff
complaints to
ethics and
DIOS are
ignored
selectively.
UNRWA
management
under Phillipe
Lazzarrini and
his team
promised
donors to work
with
transparency
and
accountability.
In reality,
what is
happening is
the exact
opposite.
Management
assessment
report
prepared by
two individual
independent
consultants
showed several
serious
violations and
mismanagement.
The report was
requested and
paid by the
German
government via
GIZ.
After
several
attempts by
Lazzarini to
intervene with
the findings,
the report was
hidden.
Instead of
handling the
serious
issues, he
decided to
call for a
team building
exercise which
included
cooking class
for his Snr
Directors.
Directors who
do not agree
with him and
his deputy are
marginalized
and eventually
pushed
out.
Those who
maintain bad
relations with
the
communities
and staff are
promoted.
An example of
this promotion
is the most
recent
appointment of
Dorothe Kalaus
(Germany) to
the director
of Lebanon
field.
Briefly before
the arrival of
Lazzarini,
Christian
Saunders was
appointed by
his friend the
Secretary
General as
acting
Commissioner-General
for
UNRWA.
During his
acting period,
he added more
than $100
million
annually as
unjustified
additional
costs.
This is all in
the middle of
a serious
funding crisis
which was
threatening
the existence
of the
Agency.
In addition,
Saunders
intervened in
appointments
of several of
his friends.
Brian Baker, a
national of
the UK and a
former UNICEF
staff member,
was moved out
of Gaza a few
years back for
his problems
with the
community.
He was
interviewed in
Jan 2019 for a
P5 position of
chief
security.
The Panel
found him
unsuitable and
opted for
another
candidate of
an Egyptian
nationality.
Less
than a year
later, Brian
was appointed
as a Director
of Security
and Risk
management
with a fraud
process
orchestrated
by the
Director of
Human
Resources
Antonino Brusa
who is a
friend and a
former
colleague of
Brian
Baker.
The process
was a
fraud.
The head of
the Panel was
a UNICEF staff
and the then
direct
supervisor of
Brian
Baker.
He was
invited
by Brusa to
chair a
panel.
There was
never in the
history of the
Agency such an
action.
Panel members
disagreed with
the chair
(Brian's
supervisor at
UNICEF) and
did not select
Brian.
Antonino Brusa
informed the
panel members
that lets send
the case to
the acting
commissioner-general
for his
decision.
Saunders
overruled the
panel members'
views and
approved the
appointment of
Brian Baker at
D1 level.
That same
person did not
qualify for a
P5 with the
same agency a
few months
earlier.
Baker within
months of his
appointment,
fired the
Egyptian P5
person who
competed
against
him.
With
fabricated
accusations
and in close
coordination
with friend
Antonino
Brusa, the
investigation
took a couple
of weeks for a
final decision
to be approved
with
dismissal.
This
way, Baker got
rid of his
first
target.
A few months
later, Brian
Baker seeks a
recruitment of
a local
consultant and
he publishes
an
announcement
for that
position.
He selected
his preferred
candidate and
offered her a
contract
valued at
approximately
usd 1300
monthly.
She turned
down the
contract.
Brian writes
to HR and
informs them
that he
intends to
cancel the
vacancy
instead of
proceeding
with the
second
selected
candidate.
A couple of
weeks later,
he replaced
the vacancy
with an
international
consultancy
with a monthly
fee of USD
5000.
After he
announces the
vacancy, HR
asks him to
shortlist
candidates.
Brian
strongly
refuses to do
so and gets
the approval
of the
Director of HR
to proceed
with the
recruitment of
the same
selected
candidate of
the local
consultant.
Two contracts
are
attached.
Same
candidate,
same ToRs,
different
value with
more than 300%
increase.
The Director
of HR
intentionally
ignores those
violations and
approves
whatever his
friend
wants.
Baker
continues with
his actions
without any
questioning by
any of the
Snr.
Management
people.
He then brings
another friend
from UNICEF
Yara Dababneh
on another
consultancy
contract.
Less
than a year
later Yara
receives a P4
contract with
external
relations with
the help of
Brian.
The Director
of HR brings
in another
UNICEF former
colleague in a
fabricated
pre-planned
process.
Julliette
Touma who
holds a fake
Palestinian
nationality (
in reality she
holds an
Israeli
citizenship
but she was
able to
receive a
Palestinian
travel
document and
not a
nationality).
She records
her
nationality
with UNRWA as
Palestinian
and she was
appointed at
D1
level.
Ms.Touma
was originally
assisted by
her friend
from OCHA (
David Shearer
who was DSRSG
for UNAMI
Iraq) to
become an
international
staff of the
UN at P2 level
in yet another
fake process.
He wanted her
to move from
GS6 position
directly to P4
but then
agreed to a P2
due to her
lack of
experience.
After serving
UNICEF
regional
office in
Jordan, she
was asked to
seek another
opportunity
outside of
UNICEF.
Her friend
Brusa
immediately
picked her up
to become the
spokesperson
and the
director of
communications
for
UNRWA.
In Syria field
office, UNRWA
tribunal
issued a
judgment
related to
violation and
abuse of
power.
A
Selection of a
senior staff
was found
incorrect by
the Advisory
Committee of
HR.
While digging
into the
qualifications,
they
discovered
that the
selected staff
provided false
information on
her CV.
The director
of HR, Brusa
lets the case
rest for a
couple of
months and
then agreed
with the
deputy
director of
Syria office
to offer that
same candidate
a
contract.
One of the non
selected staff
appealed the
decision to
the tribunal
and won her
case.
The judgment
calls for
accountability
for those who
violated the
process.
Lazzarini does
nothing to
this date and
the selected
staff remains
at her new job
in
Syria.
Back to Baker.
A couple of
months ago
following one
of his staff
providing a
witness
statement to
the Tribunal,
he started
bullying and
harassing him.
Brian
also informed
the witness
staff thast
his position
was
abolished.
When the staff
reported his
case to the
ethics office,
the case was
delayed and
ignored.
The staff
provided
additional
very serious
and concrete
evidence to
the ethics
office.
The case was
immediately
forwarded to
the
investigation
after the
ethics office
concluded a
prima facie
case of
retaliation.
The decision
of abolishing
the post was
put on hold.
Brian and
because of his
untouched
protection by
the Director
of HR and by
the
Commissioner-General,
remains
working at his
position.
Other less
serious cases
are
immediately
put on
administrative
leave pending
the outcome of
investigation.
The evidence
provided to
the ethics
office
included proof
of bullying,
retaliation
and
harassment,
It also
included
Brian's
comments about
the
uselessness of
ethics and
DIOS in his
opinion.
Lazzarini,
upon his
arrival,
assigned an
official UNRWA
vehicle for
more than a
year to be
used by his
wife.
The car gets
hit by his
wife and
repaired at
the expense of
the Agency
when the
accident was
reported as
official.
That
is today's UN,
with Inner
City Press
still banned
from entering
to ask these
questions in
person, and
its December
5, 2022 appeal
not even
responded to.
Totally
corrupt.
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By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
SDNY COURT
Exclusive, Feb 1 – A United
Nations budget expert in New
York drugged and raped a
woman; a default judgment
was awarded against him on
February 1, 2023 in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New
York.
Inner
City Press, which has been
banned from the UN for
asking about its sexual
abuses, was there in court.
But the
defendant, Mutaz Hyassat,
was not. Nor was anyone from
the United Nations, on whose
Advisory Committee on
Administrative and Budgetary
Questions Hyassat served at
the time of the rape, nor
from the UN missions of
Jordan nor of the United
States.
The
victim worked for the US
Treasury Department at the
time of the rape.
Hyassat
lured her to El Rio Grande
restaurant at 160 E. 38th
Street where he plied her
with a pink drink with GHB
in it.
Hyassat
raped her overnight. He
continues to work for the
Jordanian foreign ministry,
as chief of legal
administration, it was said
on February 1. Doe was present in
the courtroom.
Hyassat refused
to ever answer the rape
charges against him. But on
February 1 Judge Paul G.
Gardephe found that
Hyassat's immunity as an
ACABQ member was only
functional, in connection
with this work. Despite the
pervasive corruption of the
UN under SG Antonio
Guterres, rape is still not
part of ACABQ's work.
Judge
Gardephe granted and entered
a default judgment and
referred it for a
Magistrates' inquest on
damages.
Plaintiff Jane Doe is seeking $1.25 million. UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric, and USG Melissa Fleming whose department keeps Inner City Press banned from entering the UN to ask, refuse to answer written questions. The case is Doe v. Hyassat, 18-cv-6110 (Gardephe)
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