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UNITED NATIONS, May
16 – Four months after the
arrest for UN
bribery of Patrick Ho, the
head of China Energy Fund
Committee full funded by CEFC
China Energy, his ultimate boss
at CEFC Ye Jianming was brought
in for questioning in
China. On May 15 the
prosecution detailed how the
bribes were paid, as part of
responding to Ho's motion to
dismissed. The funds to Kutesa
when from HSBC in Hong Kong to
Deutsche Bank in New York to
Stanbic in Uganda. The funded to
Gadio, in two tranches, when
from HSBC in Hong Kong to HSBC
in New York to Mashreq Bank in
New York to Mashreq Bank in
Dubai. On May 17 Ho should hear
a ruling on his re-request for
bail. At the UN, which has yet
to even order an audit while
Ho's China Energy Fund Committee
is still in special consultative
status with UN ECOSOC, Inner
City Press asked if the UN hopes
to get awarded attorneys fees
like it did, to the tune of
$302,000, in the case of Ng Lap
Seng, with the same prosecutors.
The UN declined to comment - it
remains UNreformed. Watch this
site. On May 2, Patrick Ho and
five lawyers argued for more
than an hour to try to get bail
granted - it was not. Judge
Katherine
Forrest noted
that even if
Ho's motions
to dismiss
some counts,
and to
suppress
evidence
collected with
his iPad
password, are
in fact
granted, the
case will
still proceed.
She asked his
lawyers to
research
whether the
equity in his
mother's home
in Hong Kong
could be
transferred to
a bank in the
United States.
Ho's lawyer Andrew
Levander
quoted him
that this is a
case not only
against Ho,
but also
against CEFC
and China it
its "One Belt,
One Road." The
prosecution's
Douglas
Zolkind
recounted how
Ho inside the
UN worked with
former Senegal
foreign
minister Gadio
to bribe
Chadian
president
Gadio, who
"laughingly"
referred to
Brazilian
bribes for
another oil
concession.
Ho's lawyers
analogized him
to Jeff Bezos
of Amazon and
to Donald J.
Trump. He will
be back in
court in a
forthnight on
May 17 at 3 pm
- and so will
we. Post
hearing
Periscope
video here.
Management and day to day
operations of CEFC have
reportedly been taken over by
the Shanghai city government's
investment arm, Shanghai
Guosheng Group Company. At the
UN, Inner City Press asked if
this meant that its fundee could
not longer be in special
consultative status to UN
ECOSOC; this has not been
answered. Inner City Press made
this connection: the president
of ECOSOC is Marie Chatardová,
Permanent Representative of the
Czech Republic to the UN. Her
president, in Prague Castle, is
Miloš Zeman -- who, like
Uganda's Foreign Minister Sam
Kutesa when he was UN President
of the General Assembly, made Ye Jianming an
official adviser.
(Inner City Press' CEFC
investigative covered has been
picked up in the Czech media,
for example here.)
Amazingly, UN Secretary General
Antonio Guterres has yet to even
order an audit, which his
predecessor Ban Ki-moon did in
the case resulting in a 48 month
sentence for Ng Lap Seng (while
also evicted Inner City Press
for pursuing the story; Guterres
and his Global Communicator
Alison Smale continue the
restrictions). Watch this site.
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