On Ban
Ki-moon,
Sleaze Of
Nephew's
Deals,
Brother's
Mining in
Myanmar, Son
in Law
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive Series
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 26 --
Ban Ki-moon's
brother Ban
Ki-ho has done
business in
Myanmar
through at
least two
companies,
Inner City
Press exclusively
reported
earlier this
year.
Ban
Ki-ho's Bosung
Powertec does
business in
Myanmar; Ban
Ki-ho was part
of a “UN
delegation” in
Myanmar.
Seems
Ban Ki-moon's
relatives have
been making
money off UN
connections,
from nephew Dennis
Bahn
working with
Colliers
International,
the UN's
landlord on
45th Street in
Manhattan, to
son in law Siddharth
Chatterjee
getting
multiple UN
promotions and
pay hikes,
most recently
given the top
UN job in
Kenya by Ban
Ki-moon
himself,
without
recusal.
Inner City
Press as
reported on
this
throughout Ban
Ki-moon's UN
tenure, and
was ousted and
evicted from
the UN by Ban
and his head
of
communications
Cristina
Gallach
earlier this
year, and
though
re-entered
after outcry,
has been confined
to UN
“minders”
for ten months
and counting.
On December 16
as Inner City
Press reported
on this and
Ban, its
Periscope
broadcasting camera was smashed directly in
front of an
event honoring
Ban, as he
moves to run
for South
Korea's
presidency.
Inner
City Press' first
story about
Ban Ki-moon
was on
November 3,
2016, in
connection
with Ki-ho's
work in the
United Arab
Emirates with
Han Seung-soo,
the former
South Korean
prime minister
who has been
one of Ban's
mentors.
As
Inner City
Press even
earlier
exclusively
reported, Ban
has allowed
Han Seung-soo
to be
simultaneously
a UN official,
the Under
Secretary
General for
Water and
Disaster Risk
Reduction, and
on the boards
of directors
of Doosan
Infracore
and of
Standard
Chartered Bank
which has
contracts with
the UN.
Han
Seung-soo,
when Inner
City Press
asked him
about it at a
stakeout along
with South
African
President
Jacob Zuma,
refused to
answer: here,
with video.
Ban's
spokesperson's
response
was to claim
Inner City
Press was
"bullying"
him, here.
The UN refused
to
meaningfully
answer on
those
conflicts of
interest. On
November 4,
Inner City
Press reported
Ban Ki-ho's
business in
Myanmar,
including that
Ki-ho was on a
“UN
delegation” in
the country
and had done
mining in Shan
state, a war
zone.
The response
to this story,
tellingly, was
for the South
Korean Mission
to the UN to
write to Inner
City Press
requesting
more
information
and any more
internet links
Inner City
Press had.
Inner City
Press provided
these to the
Mission and to
the UN.
Immediately
after that,
one of the
links was disappeared
from the
Internet.
Inner City
Press found
the archived
page, here.
And still, no
answer.
After
Inner City
Press asked
the UN about
Ban Ki-hi
having writing
and signed
a letter to
Ban Ki-moon
to join the UN
Global Compact
-- involved in
other Ban
Ki-moon
scandals --
and they
refused to
answer that,
Inner City
Press asked
Ban's
spokesperson
when was the
last time Ban
Ki-moon spoke
with Ban
Ki-ho.
Ban's
spokesperson
told Inner
City Press he
had “no
clue.”
Ban Ki-moon has
similarly
denied
contacts with
his nephew
Dennis Bahn,
recently fined
over $500,000
for forging
documents to sell
real estate in
Vietnam,
in connection
with which he
was quoted
that Ban
Ki-moon could
get Qatar's
sovereign
wealth fund to
buy the
building.
As Ban
Ki-moon's time
at the UN ran
down, and he
closed the UN
Press Briefing
Room for a
Korean-only
press
conference on
December 20,
his
spokespeople
said that Ban
Ki-ho is no
longer with
one of the two
companies, KD
Power, then
used this to
claim he no
longer does
business in
Myanmar.
But Bosung
Powertec still
does, and
the UN has refused to
explain
Ban Ki-ho
being on a “UN
delegation” in
Myanmar, nor
who else from
the UN was on
the
delegation.
Meanwhile Ban
Ki-moon
promoted his
own son in
law, Siddharth
Chatterjee, to
the top UN job
in Kenya
without
recusing
himself. But
that is another
story of
Ban Ki-moon's
nepotism and
corruption,
which we will
pursue. Watch
this site.
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