Ban
Ki-moon Said
To Take Bags
of Cash,
Censored ICP's
Investigative
Work
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Third in a
Series
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 26 --
In the final
ten days of
Ban Ki-moon's
decade as UN
Secretary
General,
covering up
genocides in Sri
Lanka, Burundi
and Yemen
and evicting
the Press
which asked
about (t)his
corruption,
Inner City
Press is
reviewing
Ban's end,
year by year.
See also this
Twitter Moment.
In 2006 after
Ban was given
the job since
he was NOT
“God's gift to
humanity,”
even then he
was criticized
for close
business links
with Myanmar,
by Djoko
Susilo
among others.
As it
turned out,
Ban Ki-moon's
brother Ban
Ki-ho would do
mining and
other business
in Myanmar,
after being on
a “UN
delegation.”
Ban Ki-moon's
nephew Dennis
Bahn is said
to have used
his uncle's
name and
position while
trying to sell
real estate in
Vietnam.
The Bans have
yet to answer
these
questions. Here's
today's
round-out
story by Inner
City Press.
It's
now reported
in South Korea
that even
while Ban
Ki-moon was UN
Secretary
General, he
received
$30,000 from a
businessman,
in a restaurant.
See
here,
including Park
Yeon-cha (as
well as
Vietnamese
minister
Nguyen Dy
Nien) with
this quote:
""It
would have
been early
2007, shortly
after Ban took
office as
Secretary
General of the
United
Nations. New
York has a
restaurant
owner who
knows him
well. Park
called the
owner of the
restaurant and
said, "If Ban
comes to eat,
give me $
30,000 as a
gift to
celebrate the
inauguration
of the
secretary
general." In
fact, we know
that money was
handed to Ban.
""
Did
the UN's
Office of
Internal
Oversight
Services ever
look into this?
We're still
waiting to
hear from
them. As to
Ban Ki-moon's
spokespeople,
they have refused
to answer
Inner City
Press' written
questions back
to November 25
about Ban
Ki-ho, etc.
Ban
Ki-moon has
largely been
immune from
accountability
for ten years,
due to a
mixture of
sycophantry
and, when seen
as necessary
in 2016,
censorship,
eviction and
restriction of
the
investigative
Press.
But in
2017...
In
his first
year, 2007,
Ban Ki-moon bought in
numerous South
Korean
staffers.
Inner City
Press asked
and was told
there was only
one, then that
there were
five,
including
Kweon Ki-hwan.
Then
Ban's
spokespeople
including Choi
Soung-ha chastised
Inner City
Press for
asking, and
demanded that
the names of
51 South Korea
staffers of
the
Secretariat be
removed from
Inner City
Press'
reporting.
Then
Inner City
Press received
this:
Subject:
Attn: Matthew
Lee, Senior
Reporter
From:
[Anonymity
requested]
To:
Matthew.Lee
[at]
innercitypress.com
hi - good
reporting and
keep it up. On
the Koreans in
Secretariat
story, I think
the question
to ask is
this:
"No previous
UN
Secretary-General
has brought
more than a
single
national to
work in his
office,
usually as a
personal
assistant or
press officer
(Kofi Annan
brought zero,
Boutros
brought one
Egyptian... to
be his
personal
spokesman,
Perez de
Cuellar
brought on
junior
diplomat to
help him. Why
has Ban
Ki-Moon needed
to bring so
many and
appoint them
to such high
positions
(ASG, D1,
etc)?
What is
different?"
There is a
Korean 'team'
which is a
virtual
cabinet,
shadowing and
if necessary
circumventing
all normal
systems.
good luck."
We'll have
more on this.
Ban's
arly
censorship,
which
culminated in
2016 with Ban
evicting Inner
City Press
through
Cristina
Gallach, audio
here, and
Inner
City Press'
camera being
smashed.
Inner City
Press even
before Ban's
Day 1 asked
about
financial
transparency.
It would end,
a decade
later, with
Ban refusing
to say who
paid for his
travel, even
what “carbon
offsets” he
supposed
bought.
On Ban's first
day at work,
after walking
in with Vijay
Nambiar who
would go on to
cover up
genocide in
Myanmar after
participating
in it in Sri
Lanka in the
White Flag
Killings, Ban
was asked
about the
death penalty
(for Saddam
Hussein) and
replied that
it is “up to
member
states.” His
first
spokesperson
Michele Montas
tried to
repair the
damage.
In
late 2016
Inner City
Press saw
Montas in the
UN, from the
“focus booth”
where it does
what work it
can after Ban
and his Under
Secretary
General for
Public
Information
Cristina
Gallach evicted
it from its
long time UN
office.
Meanwhile
Kofi Annan's
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric, who
played
a role in the
eviction,
is bragging
that he will
remain.
We'll have
more on this.
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