Ban
Dodges
Corruption
Scandal By
Blaming Member
States,
Loophole in
Blue Book
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive series
UNITED
NATIONS, May 16
-- 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 links to
the corruption
scandal,
including
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.
(Ban's
UN's response
was covered by
the New York
Times on May
13,
here.)
On
May 9, Inner
City Press
asked Ban's
spokesman
Dujarric about
Ban's
engagements
with the new
"Global
Governance for
the UN SDGs,"
which was
registered by
Francis
Lorenzo and
involves
former Ng /
South South
News people.
On May 10,
Dujarric said
to "ask
Grenada,"
which they
sponsored a
March 2016
event in the
General
Assembly Hall.
But
Inner City
Press has
found that the
head of
GG-UNSDG,
Carey Yan - no
native of
Grenada - is
listed in the
UN Blue Book
as a legal
adviser at
Grenada's
Mission to the
UN. Roosevelt
Skerrit's
Dominca has
some similar
representation,
as we've
noted. As
noted, Francis
Lorenzo who
has pleaded
guilty to
bribery
charges was
the Dominican
Republic's
Deputy
Permanent
Representative.
Inner City
Press is
digging into
this obvious
loophole, even
as Cristina
Gallach and
Ban Ki-moon
have ousted
and evicted
it. New story
coming.
But Ban
has been
present at
other events
of those who
have pleaded
guilty to UN
bribery
charges,
air-brushed
out of the UN
Office of
Internal
Oversight
Services
audit. For
example, Ban
was at Sheri
Yan's father's
“one man show”
in the UN
Secretariat
lobby, giving
his blessing
to the pay to
play nepotism
of the Global
Sustainability
Foundation's
Sheri Yan, who
has pleaded
guilty to UN
bribery
charges.
As
Inner City
Press has
repeatedly
asked Ban's
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric, who
vets these
events? The UN
must be
reformed. But
it is moving
in the
opposite
direction,
evicting the
Press which
asks the
questions.
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