UN of
Guterres Raids Office of Senior Budget
Official Wilson Seizing Evidence Of UN Wrong
Doing
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive CJR PFT
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, June 9 – A
senior UN
staff member
who even UN
judges
described as
trying to
clean up the
corruption in
the
Organization
had his office
raided and
computer
search and
seized by what
has become the
retaliation
team of
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres.
Inner
City Press
received this
sample plea
from UN staff,
anonymous for
fear of yet
more
retalation by
Guterres:
"From:
[ ]
@guerrillamail.com
Date: Sun, Jun
9, 2019 at
1:17 AM
Subject:
info
To:
Matthew.Lee
[at]
innercitypress.com
I write
you inform to
you about Tony
Wilson,
Director in UN
Management.
Wilson
complained to
the big bosses
about
retaliation
after he made
reports to
Investigations.
He won at UN
court but gave
up when he got
sick and not
been at work
since. Last
week his desk
was raided by
Investigations.
Bosses told
all staff that
all his
equipment and
files were
taken, in a
meeting, and
the Wilson is
investigated.
We hear he is
suspended.
This is the
response by
bosses. Staff
are scared of
reporting
anything."
It is to this
low that
Antonio
Guterres has
brought the
UN. Tellingly,
in terms of
the need for
outside
intervention,
investigation
and
prosecution of
Guterres and
his UN, Wilson
whom he raided
and seized
evidence from
to cover it up
has been the
Chief,
Financial
Policy and
Internal
Controls at
the D-1 level
with the
Office of
Programme
Planning,
Finance and
Budget. That
position has
information of
the expanding
corruption by
Guterres and
his UN.
Here's
from just one
of the UN
internal
justice system
decisions
involving
Wilson:
"Following
a series of
CMD’s at which
the issues in
the cases were
discussed, it
appeared to
the Tribunal
that the
ongoing
litigation
between the
parties may
not
necessarily be
in the best
interest of
the individual
staff member
or the
Organization.
In particular,
the Tribunal
noted that an
unusual
feature of
these cases
was that the
Applicant was
not seeking
financial
recompense but
was taking a
principled
approach to
highlight what
he regarded as
individual and
systemic
failures to
uphold the
high standards
set by art.
101.3 of the
Charter of the
United
Nations, which
provides:
'The
paramount
consideration
in the
employment of
the staff and
in the
determination
of the
conditions of
service shall
be the
necessity of
securing the
highest
standards of
efficiency,
competence,
and integrity.
Due regard
shall be paid
to the
importance of
recruiting the
staff on as
wide a
geographical
basis as
possible.'
"Although
the Applicant
was concerned
and distressed
by the manner
in which he
had been
treated, he
made it plain
that he was
keen to
explore, in a
constructive
manner, a
resolution of
his complaints
but also had
in mind the
ancillary
benefit to
other staff
members if the
issues of
principle that
he had raised
were properly
addressed."
Then
Guterres'
response to
was to have
Wilson's
office raided
and evidence
seized. There
needs to be an
outside
investigation
and
accountability.
Watch this
site.
In
other, more
hopeful news,
the
UN's introduction
of cholera
into Haiti,
killing tens
of thousands
of Haitians
and injuring a
million more,
has arrived at
the U.S. Supreme
Court. A cert
petition
recently filed
states, first on
the facts then
on the the law, that
"the
United Nations
spread cholera
throughout
Haiti by
taking 1,075
peacekeepers
from Nepal
(where cholera
was rampant)
and deploying
them to Haiti,
a nation that
had not seen a
case of
cholera in
more than 100
years. App.
11. The UN
never tested
its Nepalese
peacekeepers
for the
presence of
the disease
and
constructed
inadequate
sewage
facilities on
a tributary of
a major river
used for
bathing,
cooking and
drinking
water. Cholera
spread
quickly. It is
estimated
that 8
10,000 people
died and
approximately
1 million were
sickened as a
result of the
UN’s actions."
On the law the
cert petition
states:
"Throughout
this case,
Petitioners
believe there
has been a
reflexive
reaction on
the part of
governments,
the courts,
and others to
pre-judge—to
decide,
without proper
consideration,
that the UN is
immune,
despite the
Organization’s
own express
agreement to
be liable and
acceptance of
responsibility
for the
damages it has
wrought. As a
result, there
has never been
a hearing in
open court to
consider the
issues at the
heart of this
case, and
arguments by
Petitioners as
to the
nonexistence
of UN standing
claims
commissions—or
any other
binding forum
for the
adjudication
of claims—have
been ignored
by both the
district court
and the Second
Circuit. Put
simply, it has
never been
explained to
the
Petitioners by
any court how
the UN can
assume a
liability that
is enforceable
nowhere."
Inner
City Press,
now daily
covering the
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York while
banned
from any entry
into the UN by
Guterres, will
be in
writing asking
the UN about
this cert
petition, on
which amici
are soon to be
heard from.
Watch this
site, @InnerCityPress
and now @SDNYLIVE.
The UN
banned Inner
City Press, so it
could not ask the
question in
person. Petition
to Guterres
here; GAP
blogs I
and II (“Harassment
of US
Journalist
Intensifies at
the
UN”). Guterres
through Alison
Smale made it
a lifetime ban
on
17 August 2018, with no due process. On July 16,
while awaiting
the
"investigation"
the UN
promised,
Inner City
Press e-mailed
Guterres'
deputy
spokesman
Farhan Haq,
"Haitian Prime
Minister Jack
Guy Lafontant
resigned,
after
civilians were
killed
protesting
fuel price
subsidy cuts.
Again, that is
the comment of
UNSG and the
UN Mission,
given what the
UN has done
there
including by
introducing
cholera and
not paying
reparations of
any kind?"
First
there was no
answer - Haq
couldn't have
been busy,
with Inner
City Press
banned there
were only four
questioners in
the day's noon
briefing. So
Inner City
Press asked
again, cc-ing
Guterres'
Deputy Amina
J. Mohammed
and his
Communicator
Alison Smale,
among others.
Haq replied,
"your email
has been
received and
we are
following up
on answers."
But by the end
of the day, as
Inner City
Press covered
a court
hearing about
convicted UN
bribery Ng Lap
Seng, nothing.
This
is a project
for the Free
UN Coalition
for Access,
@FUNCA_info.
Watch these
sites and
feeds.
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