Ban
Spoke With
Lorenzo At
Event of Ashe
and Anilla
Cherian, DPI
Promoted
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive series
UNITED
NATIONS, May 13
-- While
many try to
insulate
today's UN
from the open
corruption of
the recent
past of
President of
the General
Assembly John
Ashe, and of
Francis
Lorenzo who
has pleaded
guilty, there
is continuity
to this UN
scandal. This
includes a
revival of the
Ng
Lap Seng's old
"South South
News" team,
with El
Salvador
ex-Ambassador
Carlos Garcia
and others,
even as those
investigating
this UN
corruption are
evicted and
restricted,
and those
covering it up
are rewarded.
Inner
City Press has
repeatedly
asked Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric about
Ban's
appearance at
an event
sponsored by
the Francis
Lorenzo
registered
group Global
Governance for
the UN
Sustainable
Development
Goals. Q&A
videos
here and
here.
Dujarric
tried to
answer about
another group,
then said
Lorenzo's
connection to
the group
isn't clear. Q&A video here.
Well, now
Inner City
Press can
report that
the "Global
Governance for
the UN
Sustainable
Development
Goals"
event Ban
attended was
with indicted
John Ashe, his
wife Anilla
Cherian's book
launch. Video
here.
It
featured
speeches by
Ban and by
Francis
Lorenzo, who
in his speech
named both
GG-UNSDG and
Global
National
Competitiveness
Cooperation
Organization
for the UN,
which
sponsored the
DPI-NGO
conference
last year at
which Under
Secretary
General
Cristina
Gallach spoke.
Q&A
video here.
How did this
not show up in
the UN's audit
of l'affaire
John Ashe and
Ng Lap Seng?
How did this
book launch
event get
inserted into
UNTV archives,
run by
Gallach's DPI?
On the video,
Ban and then
Mrs. Ban are
thanked by
Ashe and then
Anilla
Cherian. The
indictment
details how
over
$1,000,000 was
withdrawn from
the PGA
Accounts and
transferred to
the personal
accounts of
Ashe and of
Anilla
Cherian;
no-show jobs
are also
described.
Then there is
the speech of
Francis
Lorenzo, how
Anilla Cherian
showed Ban the
book even
before Ashe.
The UN has
been trying to
downplay or
conceal Ban
Ki-moon's
contacts with
Lorenzo, most
recently
saying it's
unclear how
Lorenzo is
connected to a
group that he,
Lorenzo,
register, and
another one he
founded. Those
obfuscations
cannot stand;
separately,
the
retaliation is
more and more
clear. We'll
have more on
this.
As
UN officials
including
Cristina
Gallach, whose involvement
in the scandal
is detailed in
the UN's own Office
of Internal
Oversight
Services audit
at Paragraphs
37 to 40 and
20(b)
have
moved to
evict
Inner City
Press
from the UN
premises (video
here, Courthouse
News article
here)
and
restrict its
access, Inner
City Press has
been made
aware of a
revival of the
South South
News model, in
organizations
which
retains ties
to indicted Ng Lap
Seng.
And Gallach's
Department of
Public
Information
continues
partnering
with these
organizations,
even as DPI
falls apart on
Gallach's
watch. The
last NGO
Conference at
the UN,
sponsored by
South Korea
among others,
had as a
sponsor and
speaker the
"Global
National
Competitiveness
Cooperation
Organization
for the UN,"
one of four
Sponsors of
indicted
Francis
Lorenzo's
Global
Governance for
the UN
SDGs.
Gallach even
spoke at the
event.
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