In
UN Bribery Case
of Ng Lap Seng,
Lorenzo's PPAF
Arises, Hannaford's
UNDP Is Sponsor
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Photo here
UNITED NATIONS,
July 13 –In the ongoing UN
bribery trial of Ng Lap Seng, on
July 12 government witness
Francis Lorenzo described how he
named the "bribery conduit"
South South News, and the
origins of the MDG / South South
Awards which came to include UN
officials from Cristina Gallach
through Susana Malcorra to
Sigrid Kaag, as well as Ban
Ki-moon. A still existing group
Lorenzo founded
and used, the "Public Private
Alliance Foundation" arose, as
well as the fact that a UN
official is scheduled to testify
on July 13: Simon Hannaford, the
chief legal officer of the UN
Development Program. But there's
a problem, beyond the absurdity
of presenting the UN as a clear,
rules-based victim of the
alleged corruption when it's the
UN lack of rules that allowed
and continues to allow
corruption. UNDP, Hannaford's
employer, is listed as a
collaborator of the
Lorenzo-founded Public Private
Alliance Foundation, here.
We'll have more on this. The
"Montessori Model UN" also
arose, and this entity on which
Inner City Press reported in May
2016 already then under UN
censorship restrictions shows
how UNreformed the UN is. Months
after Lorenzo was indicted, this
group was still holding events,
with links to the UN
Correspondents Association -
Inner City Press reported
on a now-removed "website, with
photos of Ban Ki-moon
and Garcia and a UN
Correspondents
Association member who
while an UNCA Executive
Committee member
attended indicted Ng Lap
Seng's August 2015 Macau
event, saying
on its website as of
May 6, 2016 that
it 'in
collaboration with the
Permanent Mission of
Grenada to the United
Nations and the
Montessori Model United
Nations organized a
High-level Meeting on
Media, Education and
Global Governance for
the UNSDG at the New
York Hilton Hotel. The
key note speakers
included H.E. Mr. Carlos
Alberto Rojas Santos,
Deputy Permanent
Representative of
Honduras to the United
Nations; Mrs. Marcela
Suazo, Director of
South-South Unit, UNFPA;
Mr. Diego Diaz, Trade
Commissioner of
Guatemala, Trade Office
in New York; Mr.
Julio Pujols, Counsellor
of the Dominican
Republic to the United
Nations; Mr. Haliscelik
Kahraman, New York &
UN Bureau Chief- Turkish
Radio and Television-
TRTWorld; and Mr. Yuntao
Guo, Secretary General
of the Global Governance
for the United Nations
Sustainable Development
Goals.' But
GG-UNSDG's website's administrator
is Francis Lorenzo, who had pleaded guilty
to UN bribery charges.
Another connection to Ng
Lap Seng is Christian
Batres, involved in the
website and in Sun Kian
Ip Foundation before it.
As Inner City Press
reported, before and
after its eviction by
Ban Ki-moon, everything
is for sale in Ban's UN.
We'll have more on this.
Counsel
to Ng Lap Seng
Park Jensen
Bennett
Partners Tai H
Park and
Douglas Jensen
in New York
The Law Firm
of Hugh H Mo
Hugh H Mo in
New York
Shapiro Arato
Partner
Alexandra
Shapiro in New
York
For the
Department of
Justice
Assistant US
attorneys
Douglas
Zolkind, Janis
Echenberg and
Daniel
Richenthal of
the US
Attorney’s
Office for the
Southern
District of
New York
Trial attorney
David Last, on
detail with
the criminal
division fraud
section's FCPA
unit.
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