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Guterres' Corrupt UN UNESCO Azoulay Doles
Jobs To Bhatt and Pise Inner City Press
Exposes It
By Matthew
Russell Lee &
sources,
Exclusive
UN GATE, March
24 –
From the
corrupt UN in
New York,
mis-run by
Antonio Guterres,
to the corrupt
UNESCO in
Paris, it's
becoming an
upside-down
world. Even by
current
Antonio
Guterres
corruption
standards, the
scandals
shaking UNESCO
are quite
considerable.
After
the disclosure
by Inner City
Press of the
fraudulent
evaporation of
$450,000 and
600,000 euros,
we received
this week
additional
evidences
about the
rewarding of
those
responsible
for another
misappropriation
of funds. The
corruption
operation was
endorsed by
the Cabinet of
DG Azoulay. It
involved a
speculative
spending of
some 2 million
dollars by
UNESCO without
obtaining any
of the
deliverables
defined by
contractual
arrangement.
In two
separate
contracts, one
for 1.536.000
EURO, and
another one
for 180.000
EURO, UNESCO
contracted the
French company
Cap Gemini to
do the core
redesign of
the
organization’s
financial and
administrative
systems and
tools.
Subsequently,
those full
amounts had
been paid to
the French
enterprise
without
getting the
any of the
expected
products.
The
Assistant
Director
General for
Administration,
Nicholas
Jeffreys from
the UK signed
all papers
covering the
fraud and
assembled a
special
working group
including the
Director of
Cabinet
Nikolas
Kassianides,
the Director
at that time
of Information
systems Ingrid
Regien, the
chief officer
of the core
redesign
project Sameer
Pise and the
usual
coordinator of
most
corruption
schemes at
UNESCO, Sachin
Bhatt, at that
point still
working as a
P5 in the
Cabinet of the
DG
Azoulay.
The ADG
for
Administration
Jeffreys thus
fully
orchestrated
the financial
loss of 2
million
dollars
tax-payers
money in order
to protect the
corrupted
administration
of the French
Audrey
Azoulay, and
together with
her, it was
decided that
the work for
which the
French company
was paid the
big dollars
without
delivering on
it, will be
done secretly
by UNESCO
staff
members.
Two
million
dollars being
a nice amount
to offer to
French
friends, DG
Azoulay
decided,
against any
logic and in
the presence
of far better
candidates, to
promote Sachin
Bhatt to a D1
position in
the
secretariat of
the governing
bodies. Well
known for his
one-sidedness
and total
servility to
Azoulay, this
appointment
got opposed by
the two
Presidents, of
the Executive
board and of
the General
conference
its1here
who requested
Azoulay to
remove Bhatt
and replace
him with a
more competent
staff member,
having the
trust of
member states.
For
the above
reasons, this
request could
not be met and
Sachin Bhatt
kept his
position with
promotion.
Nonetheless,
in accordance
with their
institutional
responsibility
of custodians
of
accountability
and
constitutionality
at UNESCO, the
Chair of the
Executive
board, the
Ambassador of
Equatorial
Guinea Agapito
Mba Mokuy, and
the President
of the General
conference,
the Turkish
Ambassador,
Altay
Cengizer, may
still wish to
request
clarifications
about the
revealed by
Inner City
Press daylight
robbery of
public
funds.
The
other fellow,
the chief of
the core
redesign
project Sameer
Pise, was
given recently
a P5 salary
in a
bizarre
“business
change
manager”
function. What
businesses for
Azoulay are to
be changed
when the
misappropriating
and wasting
public money
one is already
working well
at
UNESCO…
In this
electoral
year,
corruption at
both the UN
and at UNESCO
has to be
addressed as
an issue of
burning public
concern.
Still, those
countries who
are pretending
to be a
paragon in
fighting
corruption in
the developing
world, are
keeping their
eyes wide shut
when it
concerns the
UN agencies
that are
largely funded
by them.
This is
destroying the
remaining
credibility of
both UNESCO
and of its
rich-club
member
states.
Therefore, the
question that
members
states, which
are usually
champions of
anti-corruption
crusades may
wish to ask to
DG Azoulay is
what
percentage of
the 2 million
public money
ended in
friendly
pockets.
Member states
may also wish
to ask for an
investigation
on the
deliverables
provided by
the French
company that
had justified
the $2 million
payments.
Finally,
they must
impose
sanctions
against the
international
staff
involved.
UNESCO’s top
managers
obviously
cannot care
less that
corruption
diverts public
resources away
from the
provision of
the essential
services
defined by its
mandate, that
it corrodes
rule of law
and destroys
public trust
in the UN as a
whole, and
that actually
in some cases
it leads to
jail.
We will
have more on
that. Watch
this site.
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