| South Sudan
Diplomat Sued For Not Paying Wages 11
Months Now Talks Private Mediation
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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Nov 12 – South Sudan's
Deputy UN Ambassador Cecilia
Adeng is accused not paying
her driver for 11 months for
transporting her and her
family around in a Mercedes,
usually on private
trips.
In a complaint
filed in the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York which
Inner City Press has reported
from daily since UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres had
it banned for asking about his
collusion in genocide, driver
Ridwane Mourmouni says he
"drove both her an members of
her family around the city on
a daily basis. Many, and
likely the majority, of the
drives were personal in
nature."
South Sudan has
hired a Lexington Avenue firm
and argues it is entirely
immune under the Foreign
Sovereign Immunities Act; it
brags about "her UN Identity
Card issued by the Chief of
Protocol for the UN."
Apparently, a get
out of jail card for
non-payment and "slavery" of
employees.
Now in advance of
an initial conference, South
Sudan's Lexington Avenue firm
has told Judge Oetken about a
murky "friend of Mr. Moumouni"
which called it in advance of
November 12.
On November 12
SDNY Judge J. Paul Oetken held
a proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it. South Sudan's law
firm has filed a case
management plan with all fact
discovery to be completed by
May 11, 2022. It is talking
about a "private mediator."
The case is
Mourmouni et al. v. Permanent
Mission of the Republic of
South Sudan to the UN,
20-cv-3603 (Oetken)
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