After Inner
City Press Scoop On
Guterres Cover Up and
Swanson Audio Feb 6 Ben
Out of UN
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Audio, Patreon
UN GATE, Jan 31 –
Three weeks after Inner City
Press published leaked audio
of UN investigator Ben Swanson
recounting being ordered by UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres NOT to
investigate sexual harassment
committed by a UN Assistant
SG, now more Swanson audio has
emerged (see here
for description and below),
and now put online by Inner
City Press on SoundCloud, here,
with related letter here.
Now on January
31, 2025 Inner City Press
report that Swanson is out at
the UN, as of February 6.
Swanson said:
"this whole thing
of retaliation has got the
potential to cause us massive,
massive problems if we get it
wrong.” As he describes
the system, he says the U.N.
used to open an investigation
in response to a complaint,
“and it was taking a long time
because some of them are
horribly complicated and some
of them are just so trivial
that they’re just not worth
investigating entirely.”
He says the office trialed a
process of getting the
complaint from the U.N. ethics
office, at which point it
would write to the person
accused of retaliating against
a whistleblower or someone who
reported misconduct, and ask
them to “tell us why you’re
not guilty.” ”We’d
get the stuff … in from the
ethics office, we then write
to the subject and, I’m
paraphrasing here, saying,
‘Look, the ethics office have
said that prima facie that you
have retaliated therefore you
are guilty of retaliation
against Staff Member A, here’s
all the material, here’s the
ST/AI, write back to us in 10
days and tell us why you
haven’t … why you’re not
guilty of retaliation,'” he
says, to chuckles from others
in attendance... He says
they are effectively doing the
ethics office's job and the
office had “swallowed it up
and accepted it. We’ve done
two now, and I think we’ve got
another two in the pipeline,
and it’s working quite nicely,
that brings the figures down
[and] that gets the Americans
off the U.N.’s back, [it]
means they don’t reduce their
contribution.”
Inner City Press, which
Guterres has banned from the
UN as it asks about these and
his abuses, received
from outraged UN
whistleblowers video of sexual
exploitation, they said, in a
white UN-marked vehicle, here.
Now Instagram,
Facebook.
Inner City
Press will continue to demand
re-accreditation.
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