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UN GATE, July 17 – The United Nations claims to have a zero tolerance for sexual exploitation by its staff and peacekeepers, but routinely covers up their abuses including the rape of children, withholding basic information which was provided to the Press under Ban Ki-moon but not now under Antonio Guterres. 

   Inner City Press, which Guterres has banned from the UN for 743 days as it asks about these and his abuses, on June 23 received from outraged UN whistleblowers video of sexual exploitation, they said, in a white UN-marked vehicle, here.  Now Instagram, Facebook.

  Inner City Press named to the UN the two men in the UN van: Michael Antoine and Ray Milan. The UN did not answer, see below.

  Now after the UN told others, misleadingly, that it had disciplined two men, Inner City Press reported this about the third man, the driver: "The driver works in Procurement for UNTSO." Procurement indeed. What about the driver was an obvious question not pursued by the in-house bought off UN press corpse. But Inner City Press is pursuing it.

  After publishing the above, multiple sources contacted Inner City Press with the name of the driver: Juan Carlos Cunillera. Here is in on an UNTSO procurement form; he previously worked for the UN in Haiti, where sex exploitation morphed into the killing of 10,000 Haitians by the UN.

 Now on July 17 Guterres' Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq, hired through nepotism due to his UNDP economist father, lied on camera. He said the leave - with education grants and insurance - of two of the three men in the 4x4 was "fast action." He did not mention that he has ignored and censored written questions from Inner City Press about the third man - the actual procurer.

Inner City Press has reported: the procurement driver Juan Carlos Cunillera comes from the Dominican Republic - a member of the UN Security Council.

  On July 13, 14 and 15 Inner City Press in writing asked Guterres, his deputy Amina J. Mohammed and spokespeople, including Sophie Boudre and Julie Hylton at UNTSO on deadline: "Inner City Press is reliably involved the driver was Juan Carlos Cunillera of UNTSO. Given his presence, and other irregularities, immediately explain why there are only two suspended and not three, and how this is not a cover up.  ALSO IMMEDIATELY DESCRIBE AND EXPLAIN, AS TO THIS CASE, the UN's "Carlog" technology, "used for driver authentication (swipe card used in the Carlog device before ignition)." It is important you answer about the UN's publicly funded (but defrauded) Carlog technology and its role in this cover up."

 But the UN refused to answer. Now Inner City Press from multiple sources can report that it was Ray Milan who used his ID to start the UN vehicle - but that, contrary to policy, Juan Carlos Cunillera took the wheel. They were, so to speak, taking turns. And Antonio Guterres is covering this up.  He should resign.

On July 2, as Inner City Press asked a question, here, at the non-UN press conference on the sex trafficking indictment of Ghislaine Maxwell (who held a UN press conference in Dujarric's room, then was denied bail on July 14), this:

"the two staff members have been placed on Administrative Leave Without Pay, pending the results and conclusion of the ongoing OIOS investigation."  This was (intentionally) misreported by Xinhua and others as a strong UN action, "discipline." It is not, even by the UN's own terms, in ST/AI/2017/1 and ALWOP  Section 11"

 Inner City Press has exclusively published audio of OIOS' Ben Swanson saying that one of Guterres' Assistant Secretaries General thrust his hand down the pants of a female staffer - and Guterres, "a politician," said to cover it up. Audio here, here on Patreon.

 Inner City Press will continue to demand re-accreditation. It has been two years, with no appeal, no roadmap, pure corrupt censorship.

  Despite the story now being reported from Austria to Israel to Switzerland, those let in from Al Jazeera and other publications asked nothing. We'll have more on this. Watch this site.

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