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As UN Refuses Press Qs UN Staffer In Iraq Lied Of Drug Rape Now Freed To Work 8 am to 6 pm

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UN Gate, Sept 2  – The United Nations under Antonio Guterres sinks ever lower into complicity with sexual abuse and trafficking, and lack of accountability. Now this, from the SDNY that Inner City Press, banned from the UN 792 days for its questions, covers daily:

"KARIM ELKORANY, a former communications specialist with the United Nations (“UN”) in Iraq, was charged in an Indictment in Manhattan federal court with two counts of making false statements to special agents of the FBI in an effort to conceal his drugging and sexual assault of multiple women while he worked for the UN.  ELKORANY was arrested in New Jersey today and is expected to be presented before Magistrate Judge James L. Cott this afternoon."

  Inner City Press, which its questions still unanswered by the UN which has banned it for such questions, covered and live tweeted the 6:20 pm presentment of Elkorany, here:

Elkorany is represented by Dawn Cardi of Cardi & Edgar LLP of 99 Madison Avenue. The docket does not say CJA. So he has the money to pay. The UN pays well...

Judge Cott: I take it you are retained, Ms. Cardi?

Cardi: I am.

Judge Cott: Mr Elkorany, if you are a citizen of another country you may have a right to consular notification.

Cardi: He pleads not guilty.

Judge Cott: First, confirm you are waiving a public reading.

Cardi: Correct.

AUSA Houle: "The parties have a proposed bail package" (!) "A $500,000 personal recognizance bond co-signed by his father Awny ELkorany and brother Nor Elkorany. Surrender of all passports by five pm tomorrow. Home detention at parents' home.

AUSA Houle: He can leave 8 am to 6 pm for work. [Where does he work? What did the UN ever do about this? UN has not answered Inner City Press.]

AUSA Houle: Refrain from any contact with victims. Drug testing and treatment as directed by Pre Trial Services. Release today provided he is fitted for GPS which we understand Pre Trial is prepared to do.

AUSA Houle: Dan Richenthal has confirmed they can do it.  Richenthal: Officer Trale (sp) told me it would be possible to 5 pm. So I'm not positive.

Judge Cott: What do you want to do? Cardi: I am proposing he return home and return tomorrow morning.

Cardi: The suretors probably can't sign today either.

Judge Cott: When was he arrested?

AUSA Houle: 6 am this morning.

Cardi: My client does not have his phone and no money to get back to New Jersey. Can someone lend him the money?

Judge Cott: I cannot deal with minutia like this right now.

  Inner City Press, since its questions are not answered by Guterres' equally rape-denying Spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming, has begun research into Elkorany.

  He was listed as a UN "Communications Specialist" -- Fleming's forte -- on press releases about Toyota, here. He was interviewed on UN Radio, here. But of course, Dujarric claims he knows nothing about it and that Guterres has a "principled position." Of what, covering up all forms of UN sexual abuse, from child rape to drugging and raping? It is Guterres who should be indicted.

And this, from the field:

"Toby Lanzer was undoubtedly the most senior UN official (last eight years as ASG in three countries) who committed most abuse of power, harassment including on racial and gender grounds, sexual depravity, fraud, and just about anything else the UN says it wants to fight with zero tolerance.  So, as he just announced his early retirement, just on reaching early retirement age at 55, the obvious question is: how can the UN tolerate something like this for so long ?  Which powers were behind him ?  The impunity is as shocking as the abuse itself, and hopefully you can investigate this.  In Angola in his first job, he faked his own kidnapping and sexual abuse to score points, and got a promotion.  In Moscow he made women cry in the office after not only making them work like slaves, but also asking for sexual favours for them not to be fired.  One woman reported him and he was simply sent to Geneva on a promotion.  In Geneva he used his staff to manage the rent of his apartment and run all kinds of errands.  Staff no longer had a life and were his slaves full time.  He would feel free to wake them up any time in the night.  In CAR he fired half the UNDP office until staff complained formally.  UNDP let him go and he was promoted to D2 in Darfur.  He had a girlfriend working for an NGO, and for her a job with WFP in Chad in exchange for sexual services.  Plus trips for them both disguised as official travel.  In Sudan he committed fraud by getting a British company to procure construction materials at an inflated price and get his return.  In East Timor he had sex with minors and everyone was closing eyes."

These are the type of allegations from UN whistleblowers that Guterres and his two spokesmen refuse to answer in any way, despite having told now gone UN Rapporteur David Kaye that they were answering Inner City Press' questions.

  "Besides his frequent trips to Cambodia to have sex with more minors.  He was promoted ASG to South Sudan when people got sick of him.  But in South Sudan it is him who got sick and decided to leave.  So he triggered and staged his being kicked out by the government.  This got him not only a nicer post in Dakar but also lots of attention by the security council.  In Dakar again he once had a one month “mission” to the beach in St Louis at taxpayer expense making it pass as a retreat.  He finally went to Afghanistan where he was once spotted having sex in the car park with a National staff.  He was force to retire amidst complaints (Afghans are not as easygoing as people in the other places he has been).  He leaves behind a legacy of colleagues traumatized by his behavior.  How could impunity last so long?"

  The answer to the question, and the problem for the Un and its victims, is Antonio Guterres. Ghislaine Maxwell used the United Nations, as reported by Inner City Press whose questions about it UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres refuses.

  First Inner City Press showed that on the board of Maxwell's Terramar Project Inc. was Guterres chief Partnerships official, Amir Dossal, below.

  Now while UNEP official Lisa Svensson appears in the documents unsealed July 30 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York which Inner City Press covers since ousted from the UN by Guterres for is reporting, Inner City Press is continuing its exclusive 2018 reporting in Svensson's "Volvo Boating" and other scams at UNEP, here, where we published in full, on Scribd and Patreon, the agreement with Volvo Ocean Races signed by Erik Solheim, here, and the EUR 500,000 agreement signed by UNEP's Lisa Emilia Svensson, here and here. [Now, Aug 1, 2020 song here.]

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