| Amid UNDP Scandal Steiner
Tells Staff What To Say As SG Guterres and
Fleming Cover Up
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 6 – The corruption of
today's UN, and the roles of
SG Antonio Guterres and his
Melissa Fleming in censoring
Press to get compliant state
media to not report it, was
brought to the fore against
last week.
On November
30 Inner City Press, banned
over 880 days under Guterres,
in writing asked him, Fleming
and UN Spokespeople Stephane
Dujarric, Farhan Haq, Eri
Kaneko and Florencia Soto
Nino:
"On SG Guterres'
climate and UN claims, what
are his comments and actions
if any on the GEF-funded UNDP
project in Uzbekistan which
was warned that financial
information provided by the
UNDP was not reliable and
“must be questioned... As a
further result, this [midterm
review] is required, by UNDP
guidelines, to refer this
project for a fraud
investigation,' the report
said."
No answer
at all, even as UNDP's Achim
Steiner (as leaked to and now
exclusively published by Inner
City Press, wrote / ordered
silence from staff:
"From: Achim
Steiner Date: Tuesday,
December 1, 2020 at 9:13 AM
Mourad Wahba, Michele
Candotti, Pradeep
Kurukulasuriya, Dylan
Lowthian, Boaz Paldi
Dear
colleagues,
I am writing regarding
an article published this
morning in the Financial Times
(attached) referring to
allegations of mismanagement
and misconduct related to our
GEF
portfolio.
The link to our published
statement in response to this
issue is here.
Any media enquiries you
receive should be directed to
this published statement. If
you need further advice and
guidance, please contact Dylan
Lowthian and Boaz Paldi.
The statement can
also be shared in response to
queries from our
partners.
It is important that you know
that UNDP is working actively
and urgently to tackle these
allegations. We have a strong
system in place to receive
internal and external
allegations of financial
mismanagement and other
irregularities and we take
these allegations – and all
allegations – of fraud and
corruption very seriously....
Both the audit
report and the independent
review will be finalized
shortly and will be shared
with the Executive Board We
have already initiated a
series of management actions
in response to the initial
findings related to the OAI
audit with 57% of the
management actions (21
actions) being implemented
before the end of January
2021, 32% by June 2021 (12
actions), and 11% (4 action
items) by December 2021.
89% of the most critical
actions have been purposefully
fast tracked. These include
strengthening our monitoring
and oversight frameworks of
GEF projects – in particular
high risk projects – and
escalating risks to the UNDP
Senior level Risk Committee
for further action as
needed. Kind
regards Achim Steiner
."
Yeah. And on
December 1 when Fleming
conduct a faux Q&A with
Steiner, Mark Lowcock, Michele
Bachelet and others, there was
no mention of this UN scandal,
nor Guterres' UNdisclosed and
still UNexplained links with
UN briber CEFC China Energy,
and failure in Cameroon and
elsewhere. This is propaganda
and censorship with public
funds - corrupt.
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