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In Corrupt UN of Guterres Elitist Talk of Avan Covered Up Until Scottish Mansion Exposed

By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive CJR  Video

UNITED NATIONS GATE, Sept 6 – How lawless and hypocritical is the United Nations of Secretary General Antonio Guterres? Consider as we did this, on outside activities allowed under corrupt Guterres of Gulbenkian:

"NYCHA in the United Nations  These are the stories of some former New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) staff who have transplanted into the United Nations and to what effect—an utterly dysfunctional and corrupt Office of Information and Communication Technology (OICT) in the United Nations Secretariat in New York.  Those staff have been brought into the Organization by the Chief Information Technology Officer (CITO), Atefeh Riazi, herself a former NYCHA staff.  Jeanette Ferguson:  Jeanette Ferguson is a very close friend and confidant of Riazi. They worked together for many years in NYCHA prior to both joining the United Nations.  Ferguson who arrived at the P-4 level performing some mundane functions is currently a P-5 carrying out the functions of three “posts” at one time: Chief of Enterprise Project Management office, Chief of Budget and Finance (without the required qualifications or experience), and Chief of Riazi’s Front Office.  She has also reportedly been the first reporting officer (her supporters say because Salem was under investigation, on which nothing has happened, which just goes to show) of Diane Dane, the $115 an hour Chief of the Partnership Unit and living girl friend of Salem Avan, Director in OICT who is the de facto personal messenger between Riazi and Avan, conveying personal and work related back and forth from one to the other. 

 This this on July 14, 2019 regard Salem Avan:

Salem Avan was a guest speaker a public paid attendee event "Social Innovation Summit," which was considered as an outside activity.   A sanitized portion remains on YouTube for now, here. But the key part was taken down two years ago, to cover up. Inner City Press has obtained it and exclusively published it on its YouTube channel, not yet raidable by Guterres, here:

  Avan in his introduction speaks of the UN Fifth Committee ("the committee brought to you by the letters G and A and the number 5" (thank you Sesame Street), "they abuse us and then decide whether or not we get money") and every UN staff member ("You're smart people, this is unusual for me to be in a room with smart people").  He violated his responsibilities as a staff member, specifically Staff Regulation .1.2 (f) and ST/AI/2000/12 Section 4.2 and his behavior demeaned the UN in getting outside people just to laugh at the UN and its staff - sometimes appropriately, but still.

 Nothing was done despite being reported.     Avan got promoted to D-2 by Atefeh Riazi --


  Sources told ICP that both Riazi and Avan are currently under investigation for financial irregularities investigation [...] and that Avan is under sexual harassment investigation by OIOS.

  Jump cut to 2024, when UN whistleblowers updated Inner City Press, still banned from the UN by Guterres: 

  OIOS investigated Salem Avan's hiring without any process of his live-in girlfriend. Now in 2024 Avan resign - as the investigation plodded along, the BCC profiled Avan's luxurious home in the Scottish Highlands. Parading his third hoe in the middle of the investigation was too much even for the UN. Avan left. "Did he jump or was he pushed?" the whistleblowers ask.

We'll have more on this - while Guterres and his spokespeople refuse to answer any of Inner City Press' written questions, we still have sources, many sources. Watch this site.

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