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Corrupt UN of Guterres Hiring Scams in
Office of South South
Cooperation Travel Waste
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive CJR PFT
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, February 5 – The extent
of corruption in the UN system
under Antonio Guterres, who
while concealing his links
with UN bribery CEFC China
Energy has banned
the Press which asks, find
another example in the Office
of South South Cooperation.
Today Inner City Press looks
with exclusive leaks from within
Guterres' declining UN as far
south as possible in the
Americas, to Argentina.
Despite the fact that
President Macri campaigned on
the promise to achieve “Zero
Poverty," soup kitchen lines
are getting longer as
struggling Argentinians feel
the brunt of the harsh
austerity measures. But the
country’s increased poverty
rate is not stopping the Macri
government from paying
millions to host a conference
by Jorge Chediek’s Office of
South-South Cooperation. Mr.
Chediek and his group continue
to use the Office for selfish
gain. In addition to his
wasteful self-promoting
travel, akin to Guterres', Mr.
Chediek has engaged in a spree
of quid pro quo activities to
ingratiate himself with
various parties, including
questionable hiring. Mr.
Chediek engaged the services
of fellow Argentine Ms.
Cecilia Milesi, to serve as
Senior Peacebuilding
consultant, despite the fact
that she lacks prior
substantive experience working
in peace and development. And
by multiple accounts, this
lack of experience reflects in
her work. Moreover, Ms. Milesi
likely taking cue from her
boss,herself engages in
conduct violating UNDP policy,
including dubious travel on
UNDP's dime, making personal
stops during official work
travel and charged those costs
to UNDP
resources.
Ms. Milesi also
oversteps her role as a
contractor providing service
to UNDP, to manage and approve
the recruitment of fellow
Latin Americans, all of whom
were waived from the UNDP
competitive process and
awarded direct contracts, to
join Mr. Chediek’s inner
circle. The hiring process was
executed in a coordinated
family business style, with
Ms. Milesi giving pointers to
her friends, with whom she had
prior association who
similarly lack the required
experience for the job.
See one of the documents
leaked to Inner City Press on
Scribd, here
Documents reveal
that Ms. Milesi and others
interfered in the hiring
process by manipulating
resumes to match the job
description in question in
order to bypass any vetting.
Moreover, Mr. Chediek blindly
signed off on Ms. Milesi’s
cronyistic recruitment after
she independently completed
the hiring process. As a
contractor, Ms. Milesi
violated UNDP policy
prohibiting consultants from
overseeing and approving
recruitments, without the
required oversight or
participation of authorized
personnel. Moreover, this
speaks to the pattern of
regional bias at the Office of
South South Cooperation, in
violation of UNDP’s policy on
ensuring diversity in
hiring.
This begs the
question: Has Mr. Chediek
received a favor from Ms.
Milesi’s brother Rodolfo
Milesi who is the Executive
Director of Branding Latin
America, a London based PR
firm, in return for hiring
this woefully unqualified
individual? Mr. Milesi’s
company according to the
website seeks to “to bridge
business and promotional
interests between Latin
America, the United Kingdom
and the rest of the world,”
and boasts work with more than
10 presidents, and over 50
corporations among its
prolific clientele. This is
certainly an attractive
partnership, one thatMr.
Chediek is likely keen to
capitalize
on.
Mr. Milesi has
his own connections with the
United Nations through his PR
firm. Does Antonio
Guterreshimself have a quid
pro quo with Branding Latin
America?According to his
social media posts, Mr.
Milesi’s Branding Latin
America was the official PR
firm for the Pacific Alliance
during the lastest UN General
Assembly week. Ms. Milesi also
arranged during this visit of
her brother, a friendly
meet-and-greet gathering
between her brother’s firm’s
team and several colleagues
from Mr. Chediek’s close
circle in the office, which
she proudly shared on her
Facebook.
With just under two months to
BAPA+40, does the Government
of Mr. Macri think it prudent
to invest millions into the
historically corrupt Office of
South-South Cooperation while
the Argentine populace
increasingly relies on charity
for sustenance?
We'll have
more on this.
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