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Into
Next SG Race,
Figueres from
Costa Rica, Ng
Case &
Clark &
Malcorra
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, July
7 -- As the UN
and UNDP
bribery
scandal
gathered force
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon called
for an audit
by the UN
Office of
Internal
Oversight
Services of
the Global
Sustainability
Foundation
(GSF), David
Ng Lap Seng's
Sun Kian Ip
Group and its
affiliates
including the
"World Harmony
Foundation"
and South
South News,
among others.
The now
expanded case
has
implications
for Helen
Clark, head of
UNDP running
to replace
Ban, and the
also-running
Susana
Malcorra,
formely Ban's
chief of
staff.
Now this, from
Costa Rica:
"On the 7th
July, the
President of
Costa Rica
will announce
the nomination
of Christiana
Figueres as
Costa Rica’s
candidate for
the position
of United
Nations
Secretary
General. The
announcement
will be made
at an event in
San Jose,
Costa Rica."
Inner City
Press covered
Figueres'
successful
2010 race
to head
UNFCCC, and questioned
her this year
about Ban's
Global Compact
accepting in
it coal
companies.
We'll have
more on
this.
The UN
Development
Program began
its own audit,
which Inner
City Press
published here,
and asked
Ban's
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric for a
press
conference
about.
Next SG
candidate
Helen Clark,
having run
UNDP for the
last seven
years, has not
held a press
conference on
it.
Susana
Malcorra,
Ban's former
chief of staff
also vying for
Next SG, in
2014 accept
one of Ng Lap
Seng's South
South Awards.
Inner City
Press reported
this back in
October 2015
-- and was
physically
ousted from
the UN in
February 2016
(audio
here), and
its long time
office evicted
in April 2016
(video
here).
The pretext
for both was
Inner City
Press seeking
to cover, in a
UN Press
Briefing Room
event that
even the UN
says there was
no written
notice of
being closed,
Ng's links
with press
corps
insiders: his
entities
bought
inflated price
seats and got
face time with
Ban Ki-moon.
The evicting
UN official,
Cristina
Gallach,
attended Ng's
South South
Awards in
September
2015, and was
found to have
failed to do
any due
diligence of
Ng's Global
Sustainability
Foundation
before
allowing it to
sponsor the
UN's slavery
memorial. Gallach
told UN
Rapporteur on
Freedom of
Expression of
an
"altercation"
which
never took
place; the UN
claims it has
"no records"
while Gallach
told Nobel
winner Jose
Ramos Horta
she has an
"internal
report" which
Ban's
spokesman
Dujarric
refuses to
answer about.
With
pretextually
reduced
access, Inner
City Press
nevertheless
asked Malcorra
about the Ng
Lap Seng case.
Malcorra tried
to write it
entirely off
to holes in
the PGA's
office; now a
ponderous
profile of
Malcorra
doesn't even
MENTION the Ng
Lap Seng /
John Ashe
case, as the
UN's ouster
and eviction
of the Press,
Ng's table-
and slavery
memorial-buying
and Gallach's
lack of due
diligence were
not mentioned.
Who's the
insider? This
is today's UN.
But
these
questions must
be asked and
will be
pursued. .
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