In
1st UN Bribery Case Ng Lap Seng
Is Denied Bail on Appeal As
Argues UN Not Covered, Not
Audited
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
June 29 – Eight
months after
the UN bribery
conviction of
Macau-based
businessman Ng
Lap Seng, on March
30 the prosecution
asked for a
jail term of
over six years
and a $2
million fine.
On May
11 Ng was
sentenced to
four years in
jail, and ironically
to pay the legal
fees of the
UN, which even
under the
prosecutors'
press release
he corrupted. At
the UN, Carlos
Garcia
who
facilitated
Ng's bribes
to Francis
Lorenzo's family
in the
Dominican
Republic was
at the General
Assembly stakeout at
this month as
exclusively
reported by
Inner City
Press. Ng even
after
sentencing is
still under
house arrest,
but that may
end. After
an oral
argument on
June 26 in the
Second Circuit
Court of Appeals,
Ng's bid to
remain even
longer in his
apartment
on 47th Street
was
denied. “It is
hereby ordered
that
appellant’s
motion is
DENIED,
because he has
failed to show
that the
district court
clearly erred
in its risk of
flight
determination,”
the court’s
order sys,
and “It
is further
ordered that
the appeal is
expedited.” Ng's
lawyer Paul
Clement of
Kirkland &
Ellis claims
that the UN
is not the
kind of
"organization"
Congress was
talking about
in the law
prohibiting
bribery
connected to
organizations
that receive
federal funds.
So the UN can
be bribed at
will? The UN
has no law
against it,
and current SG
Guterres does
not even order
an audit of China
Energy Fund
Committee, the
second UN
bribery case
which seems linked to
the first - CEFC
invited John
Ashe to China
as well. We'll
have more on
this.
And
this: in
the underlying
Ng Lap Seng
indictment
there was a
Co-Conspirator
3 who also
bribed UN
President of
the General
Assembly John
Ashe. This
CC-3 has now been
identified as
Chau Chak Wing
by Australian
MP Andrew
Hastie,
chairman of
the
Parliamentary
Joint
Committee on
Intelligence
and Security.
Hastie
recently met
with US
authorities
about
espionage and
foreign
interference
legislation,
and said it
was during
those
discussions he
confirmed the
"long-suspected
identity of
CC-3" as Dr
Chau."The same
man who
co-conspired
to bribe the
United Nations
president of
the General
Assembly, John
Ashe," Hastie
said in a
speech in the
Australian
Parliament’s
Federation
Chamber.
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