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In UNMIK Sex Abuse Recalled To Abuser Hochschild & OIOS Swanson Who Support Banning Press

By Matthew Russell Lee, CJR PFT CEFC Video

UN GATE, Dec 18 – Antonio Guterres is killing the UN, including with his failure in Cameroon and elsewhere and his lawless censorship of Press, now at 900 days. He's put the UN in the Press Freedom Tracker, here. And so on 3 July 2019, this video, and this.

   The day after being targeted and roughed up by Guterres' guard Ronald E. Dobbins and another unnamed, Inner City Press went to the NYPD's 17th Precinct with its torn shirt and damaged laptop to file a complaint. At first it was told, flatly, that the UN is entirely immune. Then once they heard the story, the NYPD took down a complaint. But the UN including its "investigator" Ben Swanson of OIOS, shown here, have done nothing about it.

Swanson confirmed receipt, as with Inner City Press' formal written complaint about Guterres' financial failure to disclose and conflict of interest in banning Inner City Press, no action: "From: Ben Swanson <swanson1@un.org> Date: Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 1:34 AM Subject: Re: Informing OIOS of "REPORT OF PROHIBITED CONDUCT (HARASSMENT, ABUSE OF AUTHORITY) AND ‘FORMAL COMPLAINT’ SUBMITTED [ABOUT] SECRETARY GENERAL, MR ANTONIO GUTERRES, PURSUANT TO ST/SGB/2008/5" please confirm receipt and what OIOS does To: Matthew Lee @ Inner City Press Cc: FUNCA @ funca.info, Heidi Mendoza <mendozah@un.org>, Michelle Claudio <claudio@un.org>, Byung-Kun Min <min2@un.org>   Dear Mr Lee   Thank you for your email and attachments the contents of which have been noted and will be dealt with in accordance with our standard practices.    Ben Swanson  l  Director l  Investigations Division l Office of Internal Oversight Services  l  United Nations Headquarters New York l Office +1 212 963 0597 | Mobile +1 917 288 7459."

 And still now, nothing. The UN is entirely corrupt.

  Now still banned Inner City Press publishes this update on a complaint that Swanson and others earlier received - we publish now and ask later, as Guterres' Spokesman Dujarric has refused to answer Inner City Press' questions even on UN rapes, despite having promised on camera to answer questions, totally corrupt: "Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 2:15 AM Subject: UNMIK D2 promotion for sexual abuses, frauds and continuous harassments - CMS Sandi Arnold To: <swanson1@un.org>, <saundersc@un.org>, <hochschild@un.org>, <lopez22@un.org>, <armstronge@un.org>, <controller@un.org>, <acabqinbox@un.org>, <ACABQ-BUF@unitednations.onmicrosoft.com>, <fsu@un.org>  Matthew Lee at InnerCityPress Good morning, I refer to the below e mail sent on July 20, 2020 to OIOS , Ethics ,Senior Management in HQ,  ACABQ and Fifth Committee.Despite so many evidences provided to the OIOS investigators with witnesses and proven facts, Ms. Arnold is still sitting and harassing Staff in UNMIK due to her position and the firm support of Senior Management in the Mission and HQ.It was not sufficient to prove to the investigators that she misused UN funds and benefits for her personal satisfaction and to please her Senior Management,  harassed Staff even sexually. It was also necessary  to let her continue to sit in HQ panels where she would let pass only her friends and persons indicated  by HQ, even external to the Organization that would have not passed the exams due to the high technical complexity that only UN experienced Staff would be able to respond . As announced by her to everybody in UNMIK,  she is also covering  the DSRSG functions at D2 level in UNMIK  due to the departure of Mr. Christopher Coleman sitting as Chair Person for COVID 19 Panel. The Mission has a COS D1 available and never been under investigation but no way for her. Nobody can stop Ms. Arnold due to her personal and UN gifts to Senior Management. They are abusing  the Delegation of Authority given to the Head of the Mission who is benefitting of her services  living in a very expensive villa mostly paid by the UN, with all maintenance and a personal maid at Office.Very soon she will get her SPA D2. Congratulations!She only remitted the stolen money for the airport allowances where she always had her personal driver, cook, home maid Mrs. Antigona Asslanaj, paid by the UN as National Staff.She will continue harassing anybody who is not in her special Team, even by phone, noting that she never paid  a single dollar for private calls as  all her friends and Senior Staff in UNMIK.You should understand that this situation will lead, soon or later, to an arrest by the Police or worst, suicides of her victims and you all will be responsible and accountable for.Imagine if you were her Staff and you were going through all the below. Think about it before it is too late.This letter will be shared at large." And now it has been.

Dujarric has not answered this or any other corruption related question from banned Inner City Press, nor those on Cameroon and other topics. And those he allowed in "his" briefing room did not ask. Inner City Press has published the CEFC document listing Sachs' role, here on Scribed, here for download on Patreon.

Need for UN Audit Shown By ... by on Scribd

It also lists UN officials including Warren Sach, as well as Mr. José Manuel Viegas (Portugal) Secretary-General of the International Transport Forum (ITF) at the OECD; Mr. Sun Xiansheng (China) Secretary-General of the International Energy Forum (IEF); Ms. Marie-José Nadeau (Canada) Chair of the World Energy Council; Mr. Thanin Pa-Em (Thailand) Deputy Secretary-General at the Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board; Mr. Zhang Guobao (China) Former Director of China’s National Energy Administration; Mr. Christopher Martenson (USA) Economic Researcher, Writer and Trend Forecaster; Dr. Ken Koyama (Japan) Chief Economist and Managing Director at the Institute of Energy Economics in Japan (IEEJ); Dr. Christoph Frei (Switzerland); Dr. Milica Bajiæ-Brkoviæ (Serbia) Former President of ISOCARP, Member of the Executive Committee of International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP); Dr. José Goldemberg (Brazil); Mr. Mark Fulton (UK) Founding Partner of Energy Transition Advisors Pty Ltd; Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany (UAE) Director of Sustainability at Masdar City; Dr. Leena Srivastava (India) Honorary Executive Director at The Energy and Resources Institute; Mr. John Hofmeister (USA) Founder & Chief Executive of Citizens for Affordable Energy, Former President of Shell Oil Company and, yes, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs (USA) Director of The Earth Institute, Special Advisor to UN SG. We'll have more on this - and on the role of  current UN Development Program Executive Director Achim Steiner. See photos here, from a CEFC brochure which they have tried to cover up.

Three years ago Macau based businessman Ng Lap Seng was arrested and charged with bribing UN General Assembly President Josh Ashe and others, though Sun Kian Ip Foundation and other groups still in the UN. Ng was convicted of multiple violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and money laundering. But the issue of faux NGO purchase of the UN hasn't gone away. In fact, a second UN bribery case ended this week in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York with seven guilty verdicts.

In this second case, Patrick Ho was found guilty of seven of eight counts of FCPA and month laundering. (He was only not guilty on money laundering in Chad - where the bribe was not through any US bank but in cash, $2 million in a gift box). The evidence showed that the NGO he ran, China Energy Fund Committee, used its ongoing UN consultative status to pay bribes to Ugandan foreign minister - and Ashe's successor as President of the UN General Assembly -- Sam Kutesa. He was working with precedessor Vuk Jeremic while Jeremic was UN PGA. CEFC even offered weapons, tanks and drones, to Chad's long time president Idriss Deby for oil blocks or a stake in the Chad Cameroon pipeline. (Inner City Press published documents here.)

The night of the verdict I asked UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres what he will do to clean up the UN, where he has left CEFC without any audit, still in consultative status with the UN. On his way from his Mercedes to a glitzy fundraiser including George and Amal Clooney, Guterres refused to answer. The next day when asked by another journalist why Guterres had refused to answer banned Inner City Press' question, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric claimed that the UN has “cooperated” with the prosecution. But the bribery group remains in the UN, unaudited.

Why has the case of US versus Ho, and now the guilty verdicts, garnered relatively so little interest, with the corruption of the UN exposed by it scarcely mentioned all? SG Guterres is hoping it goes away. In terms of corruption, he did not disclose and refuses to answer on the African business links of his son Pedro Guimarães e Melo De Oliveira Guterres...

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