| At UNESCO French Firm Wastes
Two Million Euros In Corrupt UN of Guterres
Who Cries Poor
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, Video
UN GATE, Oct 17 –
From
the corrupt UN
of Antonio
Guterres in New
York, the
whole UN
system has
been
corrupted,
including
UNESCO. Even
by current Big
Tony UN
corruption
standards, the
scandal
shaking UNESCO
these days is
a noticeable
one. Consider
the following,
after the
disclosure by
Inner City
Press of the
fraudulent
evaporation of
some $450,000
in a proven
financial
fraud, the IOS
of the
organization
launched a
series of
investigations
that led to
indisputable
conclusions
about the
mismanagement
of
UNESCO.
Still,
this case
appears as
miniature
corruption
operation
compared to
the recent
special
internal
arrangement by
the Cabinet of
D-G Azoulay
granting
impunity to
those
accountable
for the
unjustifiable
and
speculative
spending of
some 2 million
dollars by
UNESCO without
compensation.
In two
separate
contracts, one
for 1.536.000
EURO, and
another one
for 180.000
EURO, UNESCO
contracted a
French company
to do the core
redesign of
the
organization’s
financial and
administrative
systems and
tools.
Subsequently,
those amounts
had been paid
to the French
enterprise
without
getting the
expected
deliverables.
The Assistant
Director
General for
Administration,
Nicholas
Jeffreys from
the UK in a
realistic
assessment of
the situation,
put it bluntly
last July to
his team
dealing with
the scandalous
spending of
public money
by alarming
them that if
member states
dig into this
issue or if it
goes public,
“we may all go
to jail unless
we cover it up
properly”, as
one of the
participants
in that
meeting
informed Inner
City Press.
Well,
now it is
public and
Member States
may decide to
ask questions
about it
during the
current
session of the
Executive
Board or at
the
forthcoming
General
Conference.
In a desperate
last minute
rush, a
special team
was secretly
assembled by
ADG Nicholas
Jeffreys
including the
Director of
Cabinet
Nikolas
Kassianides,
the Director
of Information
systems Ingrid
Regien, the
chief officer
of the core
redesign
project Samir
Pise and the
usual
coordinator of
most
corruption
schemes at
UNESCO, Sachin
Bath from the
cabinet of the
DG Azoulay.
The ADG
for
Administration
Jeffreys thus
orchestrated
the suicidal
attempt to
cover up the
vanishment of
2 million
dollars
tax-payers
money in order
to protect the
corrupted
administration
of the French
Audrey
Azoulay.
As a
result of the
intense
calculations
by this team,
it was decided
that the work
for which the
French company
was paid big
dollars
without
delivering on
it, will be
done by
selected
competent
staff members
of UNESCO in
an atmosphere
of total
confidentiality.
In such a
manner, the
interests of
the French
party were to
be duly
preserved and
at the same
time the
professional
reputation of
those involved
in the core
redesign was
saved at least
for the time
being.
Corruption at
the UN has
rarely before
been an issue
of such
burning public
concern.
Still, those
countries who
are fighting
fiercely
corruption in
the developing
world, are
having their
eyes wide shut
when it
concerns the
UN bodies that
are largely
funded by
them. This is
what will kill
the
credibility of
both UNESCO
and of its
rich-club
member states.
Therefore,
the question
that members
states, which
are usually
champions of
anti-corruption
crusades may
wish to ask to
DG Azoulay and
to her team is
what
percentage of
the 2 million
public money
ended in their
pockets as her
team seems to
be starving
for money, as
already
exposed
previously by
Inner City
Press. Member
states may
also wish to
ask for an
investigation
on the
deliverables
provided by
the French
company that
justified the
high payments.
Finally, they
may wish to
require more
accountability
at UNESCO and
remind
UNESCO’s top
managers that
corruption
diverts public
resources away
from the
provision of
essential
services by
the UN body,
that it
corrodes rule
of law and
destroys
public trust
in the leaders
of UNESCO, and
that actually
on that one
the ADG for
Administration
is quite right
- it could
also lead to
jail. We will
have more on
that.
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