After
Gallach's DPI
Failed on Ng's
GSF, Partners
With Guo's
WDF, No Answers
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive series
UNITED
NATIONS, May 23
--
While
many try to
insulate
today's UN
from the open
corruption of
the recent
past of
President of
the General
Assembly John
Ashe, and of
Francis
Lorenzo who
has pleaded
guilty, there
is continuity
to this UN
scandal. This
includes a
revival of the
Ng
Lap Seng's old
"South South
News" team,
with El
Salvador
ex-Ambassador
Carlos Garcia
and others,
even as those
investigating
this UN
corruption are
evicted and
restricted,
and those
covering it up
are rewarded.
Inner
City Press has
repeatedly
asked Ban
Ki-moon's
spokespeople
about Ban's
links to the
corruption
scandal,
including
Ban's
appearance at
an event
sponsored by
the Francis
Lorenzo
registered
group Global
Governance for
the UN
Sustainable
Development
Goals. Q&A
videos
here and
here.
(Ban's
UN's response
was covered by
the New York
Times on May
14,
here, here.)
On May
23, Ban's and
Cristina
Gallach's
Department of
Public
Information
partnered with
another only
recently
formed group,
which gave out
$10 meal cards
and it was not
clear what
else. The
event was
called "UN
SDGs For World
Development
Conference at
the UN" and it
was sponsored
and "produced"
by something
called the
"World
Development
Foundation."
But
what is
that? In
the room, UN
Conference
Room 7, was
one Xiangang
Guo, thanked
by DPI and
others for his
largess. The
flier listed a
website,
GlobalWDF.org
- but it
doesn't yet
exist, it's
still GoDaddy.
The
organization
itself was
registered in
August 2015,
the same month
it appeared as
a sponsor at a
DPI NGO
conference
featuring
Cristina
Gallach at UN
headquarters.
Gallach as
described in
the UN's own
Ng Lap Seng
audit did no
due diligence
of Ng's Global
Sustainability
Foundation
before it
sponsored a
one man show
in the GA
lobby that Ban
Ki-moon
attended, and
sponsored the
UN's slavery
memorial.
Now,
after Gallach
has at least
twice
retaliated
against Inner
City Press
after it asked
her about it,
Gallach's DPI
is partnering
with the
website-less
GlobalWDF.org.
We'll have
more on this:
this
organization
is
"partnering"
through
Gallach's DPI
with the DPI
NGO conference
that candidate
Ban Ki-moon
will attend in
South Korea.
On May 24,
Inner City
Press asked
Ban's Deputy
Spokesman
Farhan Haq, video here, UN
transcript
here:
Inner
City Press: I
went to
something
yesterday down
in Conference
Room 6 that
had to do with
the upcoming
NGO DPI
(Department of
Public
Information)
conference in
South Korea,
and it was
sponsored.
It said, on
the door, on
signs, on the
flyer,
sponsored by
something
called either
the World
Development
Foundation or
the
globalwfd.org.
And I went to
the
website.
The website
doesn't really
exist
yet. The
company seems
to have been
incorporated
in August of
2015 when it
was listed as
a cosponsor of
a… of a… of a
sort of a DPI
NGO conference
held in the
building.
So I wanted to
know, in light
of what came
out from the
Ng Lap Seng
audit and the
call to do due
diligence, can
you describe,
whether now or
later, what
the
sponsorship
arrangement is
between this
organisation
and DPI and
what due
diligence has
been done?
Deputy
Spokesman:
I'm not aware
that there is
any
sponsorship
arrangement.
It sounds like
you're just
mentioning
this flyer
from a
group.
Ultimately…
Inner City
Press:
Mr. Jeff Brez
was
there. I
mean, it was a
big
event.
There's no
question that
they're listed
as a sponsor
in some way,
and so I
wanted to just
figure out,
have… whether
there are any
procedures
that have been
implemented
since the
audit and if
you can
describe what
the financial
arrangement is
between this
organization
and DPI.
Deputy
Spokesman:
Well,
regarding what
DPI does, they
do look into
all of the
different
groups that
try to sponsor
any events
with DPI, and
so they do
follow
up.
That's really
an issue for
the DPI
Executive
Office.
Inner City
Press:
Right, but I'm
asking you as
the…
Deputy
Spokesman:
I'm telling
you what the
process is.
On
May 9, Inner
City Press
asked Ban's
spokesman
Dujarric about
Ban's
engagements
with the new
"Global
Governance for
the UN SDGs,"
which was
registered by
Francis
Lorenzo and
involves
former Ng /
South South
News people.
On May 10,
Dujarric said
to "ask
Grenada,"
which they
sponsored a
March 2016
event in the
General
Assembly Hall.
But
Inner City
Press has
found that the
head of
GG-UNSDG,
Carey Yan - no
native of
Grenada - is
listed in the
UN Blue Book
as a legal
adviser at
Grenada's
Mission to the
UN. Roosevelt
Skerrit's
Dominca has
some similar
representation,
as we've
noted. As
noted, Francis
Lorenzo who
has pleaded
guilty to
bribery
charges was
the Dominican
Republic's
Deputy
Permanent
Representative.
Inner City
Press is
digging into
this obvious
loophole, even
as Cristina
Gallach and
Ban Ki-moon
have ousted
and evicted
it. New story
coming.
But Ban
has been
present at
other events
of those who
have pleaded
guilty to UN
bribery
charges,
air-brushed
out of the UN
Office of
Internal
Oversight
Services
audit. For
example, Ban
was at Sheri
Yan's father's
“one man show”
in the UN
Secretariat
lobby, giving
his blessing
to the pay to
play nepotism
of the Global
Sustainability
Foundation's
Sheri Yan, who
has pleaded
guilty to UN
bribery
charges.
As
Inner City
Press has
repeatedly
asked Ban's
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric, who
vets these
events? The UN
must be
reformed. But
it is moving
in the
opposite
direction,
evicting the
Press which
asks the
questions.
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