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By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive CJR PFT

UNITED NATIONS GATE, July 3 – The corruption in the UN system under UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres ranges from impunity for sexual abuse and harassment to double-dipping of benefits, to massive over-spending on travel by Guterres himself, by Erik Solheim and others at UNEP and, as Inner City Press will now be detailing in a series of articles based on leaked documents, in the UN Development Program and its Office of South South Cooperation. Travel expenses by UNDP in 2017 amounted to nearly $27 million, and by August 2018 came in at a staggering $26 million four months short of year end.

 On July 4, the 1 year anniversary of the NYPD taking a complaint against Guterres' guards roughing up the Press while saying the UN has total immunity, this, from Belarussian state media of the type Guterres likes best: "MINSK, 3 July (BelTA) – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is expected to visit Belarus in September. The visit was discussed as Belarusian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Dapkiunas met with UN Resident Coordinator in Belarus Joanna Kazana-Wisniowiecki, BelTA has learned. The meeting focused on preparations for the UN secretary general's visit to Minsk in September." We'll have more on this.

 On July 3, the roughing up 1-year anniversary of Guterres having Inner City Press' laptop damaged and shirt torn by UN Security Lt Ronald E. Dobbins while it covered the UN Budget Committee and banning it from entering the UN since, Guterres has dole out another job in a predictable way: "United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Haoliang Xu of the People’s Republic of China as Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Bureau of Policy and Programme Support, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).  Mr. Xu succeeds Abdoulaye Mar Dieye of Senegal, who the Secretary-General has appointed as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser to the UNDP Administrator."

  Xu is another of Guterres' travel waste fiends. Inner City Press has reported that as UNDP's chief of Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific Haoliang Xu rang up $227,770 in travel costs. Leaked travel budget document downloadable on Patreon here, with Air Ticket the first column and "Allowance" the second :
HAOLIANG XU, Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific $ 227,769.79
China, Thailand $ 7,843.00 $ 1,016.00
Myanmar $ 7,203.60 $ 1,122.32
Mongolia $ 1,622.00 $ 806.96
Thailand - Bhutan $ 681.80
Thailand - Boston $ 7,421.00 $ 956.08
Indonesia - Thailand $ 7,361.10 $ 1,916.08
China - East Timor $ 7,296.00 $ 3,433.83
Washington DC $ 613.00 $ 329.78
Pakistan - Republic of Korea $ 9,523.30 $ 2,376.08
Iran - Thailand $ 5,943.00 $ 2,620.20
Sri Lanka - Thailand - China $ 2,412.00 $ 2,265.76
Belgium $ 4,210.00 $ 950.00
Philippines - Papua New Guinea - Thailand $ 9,553.00 $ 3,067.72
Switzerland $ 3,736.00 $ 942.72
Myanmar $ 7,515.00 $ 669.00
Thailand - Indonesia - Singapore - Laos $ 11,128.00 $ 2,832.90
Afghanistan - Thailand - Malaysia $ 5,300.40 $ 1,850.32
Sri Lanka - Thailand - India $ 18,722.20 $ 2,776.89
Bangladesh - Thailand $ 7,368.00 $ 1,805.00
Thailand - China $ 17,540.42 $ 2,682.64
Thailand - Hongkong - Fiji - Tonga $ 14,771.20 $ 3,248.86
Samoa - Australia - Nauru $ 5,140.00 $ 1,183.30
Guam - Micronesia - Palau - Thailand - Myanmar $ 13,938.00 $ 2,635.54
China $ 866.80 $ 848.40
Cambodia - Japan $ 5,613.11 $ 2,111.48." We'll have more on this - and on what Haoliang Xu was doing in these places. UNDP's chief of the Regional Bureau for Arab States Mourad Wahba has rung up $188,000 in travel expenses. Leaked travel budget document downloadable on Patreon here, with Air Ticket the first column and "Allowance" the second :
MOURAD WAHBA, Regional Bureau for Arab States $ 187,763.32
Jordan - Egypt $ 8,346.20 $ 2,172.00
Belgium - Kenya - Somalia $ 11,861.00 $ 2,805.77
Washington DC $ 449.00 $ 347.20
Switzerland $ 15,850.10 $ 573.00
Egypt $ 3,897.00 $ 690.00
Jordan $ 5,103.44 $ 1,402.24
Washington DC $ 480.00 $ 521.44
Japan $ 7,634.00 $ 1,565.40
Syria - Lebanon - Turkey $ 4,246.00 $ 2,773.20
Belgium $ 6,936.00 $ 999.68
Djibouti - Yemen - Somalia - Kenya $ 6,918.00 $ 1,685.00
Germany $ 11,048.00 $ 1,154.00
Lebanon $ 3,615.00 $ (9.91)
France - Switzerland $ 11,424.00 $ 2,146.96
Belgium $ 17,565.00 $ 2,502.16
UAE- Kuwait $ 5,684.00 $ 1,701.96
Algeria $ 5,797.00 $ 447.18
Lebanon $ 3,220.00 $ -
Belgium $ 9,134.00 $ 2,247.40
Lebanon - Jordan - Tunisia - Libya $ 3,681.00 $ 1,899.56
Washington DC $ 937.00 $ 399.20
Germany $ 6,276.00 $ 1,523.14
Japan $ 6,908.00 $ 1,207.00." We'll have more on this. Wahba was given his current post, a transfer from the UN's failing even murderous (through cholera) presence in Haiti, as a form of quid pro quo. Before being banned from the UN as part of Guterres' censorship for corruption, Inner City Press asked spokesman Stephane Dujarric why the UN's humanitarian coordinator in Haiti would be taken out for another job at this time. The why wasn't answered.  This week, Dujarric has refused to answer any Press questions about travel costs, at UNDP, Solheim's UNEP and - a fish rots from the head - his boss Guterres. In the past in the UN briefing room, before now being banned from it, Inner City Press questioned Wahba about his statement that Hurricane Matthew, and not the UN-brought cholera, was the worst humanitarian event since the 2010. So the UN under Guterres is failing on all fronts - and censoring to try to conceal it.

On September 19 Inner City Press profiled the Deputy Administrator of UNDP Tegegnework Gettu, whose travel waste we previously reported on and his threat to staff that they better be careful. Inner City Press Press was thrown out of the UN without due process and Guterres spokesman has refused to answer Inner City Press' questions about travel waste, of his boss Guterres and about UNDP in particular. Gettu's tab is $159,640.41. Look in his leaked list at his inflated airfare to Switzerland, leaked travel budget document downloadable on Patreon here, with Air Ticket the first column and "Allowance" the second :
TEGEGNEWORK GEITU, Associate Administrator $ 159,640.41
Nigeria $ 11,197.00 $ 280.00
Norway $ 5,116.00 $ 784.00
Afghanistan $ 16,260.00 $ 162.00
Switzerland $ 22,136.21 $ 368.00
Japan $ 5,405.00 $ 574.00
China $ 3,459.00 $ 460.00
Afghanistan $ 20,489.00 $ 162.00
China, Qatar $ 16,697.00 $ 2,178.00
Kenya $ 4,473.00 $ 1,050.00
Malaysia $ 11,084.00 $ 216.00
China - Ethiopia $ 16,645.02 $ 1,545.57
Djibouti $ 6,916.00 $ 466.35
Eritrea $ 1,273.26 $ 430.00
China $ 9,398.00 $ 416.00

We'll have more on this. On September 18, as elsewhere in the UN system corrupted by Guterres the head of UN Environment Erik Solheim blames his travel waste on his own administrative (Inner City Press exclusively pubished Solheim's internal email here), we focus on the head of UNDP, Achim Steiner. Since being given the top job at UNDP by Guterres in exchange for allowing Guterres' power grab of the UN Resident Coordinator system from UNDP, one of the dubious reform for support of which by UN Budget Committee char Tommo Monthe of Cameroon Guterres helped cover up Cameroon's slaughter of Anglophones, Steiner's international travel has cost nearly $10,000 or more for airfare per trip, with one trip to Myanmar
- Japan - United Kingdom costing around $28,000 for airfare only. Leaked travel budget document downloadable on Patreon here, with Air Ticket the first column and "Allowance" the second....

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