UNDP
Hides Basnyat
As More
Corruption of
Afghan
Programs
Emerges, 3
Audits
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 11
-- The UN
Development
Program has
all summer
being doing
its best to
cover up
irregularities
not only in
its Law
and Order
Trust Fund for
Afghanistan,
to which Inner
City Press
devoted
a nine-part
series with
internal audit
documents,
but also
another Manoj
Basnyat run
slush fund,
the Policy
Advisory and
Development
program.
Back
on June 22,
Inner City
Press replied
to UNDP's
first answer:
1)
WHY Manoj
Basnyat is no
longer the
country
director --
did this have
ANYTHING to do
with the LOTFA
irregularities?
2)
the date on
which each of
Basnyet,
Sandeep Kumar
and Ubadallah
Sahibzada
became aware
of the
irregularities
and of the
attached
audits.
UNDP's
A. R. Ghandour
replied that
"the previous
country
director of
UNDP in
Afghanistan,
Mr. Manoj
Basnyat left
Afghanistan
after three
and half
years, upon
completion of
his
assignment."
But
even then, cursory research showed the
Basnyat had
left his
previous
posting, in
Bangladesh, on
bad terms.
Still, UNDP
has hosted
Basnyat
in Room 2366
of its
headquarters
ever since.
Why?
Today,
Inner City
Press is
publishing yet
more internal
LOTFA audits
showing
no
performance
appraisals
(click here),
no
c.v.'s, non-compliance with
Afghanistan's
own
procurement
laws.
There is more.
Watch this
site.
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