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ICAO Whistleblowers Tell Banned Inner City Press of Financial Irregularities “With RBC” and Leak Memo As Guterres Censors

By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive, Patreon

UNITED NATIONS, July 27 – The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has been repeatedly hacked with funds missing and a murky relationship with Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) according to ICAO whistleblowers who have contacted Inner City Press even has it has been banned from the UN for 24 days and counting by the vacationing UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and provided it with leaked documents, here on Scribd and if any problem, on Patreon here.

  Normally, Inner City Press would be able to get answers, confirmations or denials, inside the UN. But Guterres appears to believe that the UN system is better served by roughing up the investigative Press as it covers his Budget, then having his spokesman answer only one -- the easiest one -- of the five questions Inner City Press has been submitted each weekday it has been banned. So here now the documents, and whistleblowers' accounts:

“At ICAO in the last two years there have been at least nine incidents of missing financial transaction. There is one as recent as 26 June 2018 involving RBC. Previous incidents of missing funds have been reported to Mr Vincent Smith, Director of Administration and Mr James Wan, Deputy Director of Administration. They have done nothing to address this matter other than install a security camera over the entrance of the Treasury Office.”

  There has been no audit, just as Guterres has yet to even start any audit of the China Energy Fund Committee / Patrick Ho UN bribery case. The UN is dying, or being killed, quietly, and with censorship. We'll have more on this. And on this: the UN on July 26 misleadingly put the amount it is owed for its regular budget at $810 million. The real number for “Outstanding Regular Budget” in the UN's internal Status of Contributions website, as of July 26, is $1,286,496,899.22, Inner City Press can exclusively report. See Status of Contributions printout, exclusive, here on Scribd; if any problem, here via Patreon.

   Inner City Press was banned from the July 26 UN noon briefing where Secretary General Antonio Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric made this claim, and so could not ask questions. It submitted five questions, only one of which was partially answered.

  Inner City Press has been banned from the UN since July 3, when while it was covering the UN Budget Committee meeting as it has for years its reporter was roughed up by UN Security Lieutenant Ronald E. Dobbins and another officer the UN still refuses to name.

   In front of UN Department of Management official Christian Saunders (previously embroiled in a UN procurement scandal) Inner City Press' reporter was physically removed from the UN. After filing a New York City Police Department criminal report on July 4, Inner City Press was blocked by UN Security from entering the building on July 5, and has been banned for 23 days since.

   Guterres, who was informed on June 25 that Lt Dobbins was targeting Inner City Press which has published a similarly leaked UN document calling into question his and others' promotions in UN Security, refused on July 20 to answer why Inner City Press is banned, and set off on a two week vacation, location undisclosed. (Tellingly, insiders quoting Guterres' letter but not the actual numbers did not mention he is on vacation.) Guterres declined to speak to the Frontline documentary on UN peacekeepers' rapes that aired on July 24.

Exclusive: UN Claims It's Owed $810M But Real Number Is 1,286 Billion Inner City Press Learns While Banned by Matthew Russell Lee on Scribd


  On July 13 as Inner City Press worked outside the UN on the bus stop bench on 45th Street and First Avenue in front of the UN Delegates Entrance it was informed by a source that “the US has stopped paying its dues and Guterres is asking for 5% cut all around” Being banned from the building Inner City Press has been trying to confirm and expand on this, being told by another source that “I have heard that there are important Member States that have delayed payments (US, Japan, Brazil, Mexico for instance) and that evidently do create a cash challenge.” We'll have more on this - and on Guterres' ongoing censorship.

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