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Guterres Used Angola dos Santos Family Funds To Be UNSG Now No Luanda Leaks Answers

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE / SDNY COURT, Jan 21 – When Antonio Guterres wanted to get the position of UN Secretary General in 2006, he needed money and political support. He found it in long time Angola dictator and kleptocrat Jose Eduardo dos Santos.

    Now Guterres refuses to answer Press questions about the Luanda Leaks scandal, and about his close Angolan staffer Aguinaldo Baptista's online support for Isabel dos Santos. Guterres had roughed up and has banned for 567 days and counting Inner City Press which asks the questions. 

 Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric, who played and plays his role in the banning, said on camera he would answer Inner City Press' questions, video here.

  But so far, now answer to this one: "January 20-1: On corruption and Angola, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on the Luanda Leaks exposure of Isabel dos Santos of Angola, and as Inner City Press has repeatedly asked, what are his comments and action on the repeated retweeting of Isabel dos Santos' denials by his close staffer Aguinaldo Baptista? After, for example, exposure of the corrupt urban development project near Luanda for which some 3,000 families were driven from their homes to make way for the development?"

  On January 21 it is added from Mauritius that the "spoils of the Dos Santos clan", is according to the ICIJ survey distributed among 400 companies in 41 countries around the world . Almost 100 of these companies are in controversial jurisdictions such as Mauritius, Malta, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, the British Virgin Islands and Dubai" - which also hosted Amr Abdul Aziz's money laundering for OneCoin, on which Dujarric has also refused to answer. We'll have more on this.

  On March 17, 2016 Angolan state media reported that "José Eduardo dos Santos Thursday in Luanda was informed on the process of candidacy of António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres to the post of the UNSG. Antonio Guterres, who served as Portuguese prime minister, said he presented a program of his candidacy for the world body’s top position.  'It is very important for me to have Angola at the very beginning of this candidacy, as I am an old friend and admirer."   

   Dos Santos, flush with oil money, controlled more embassies and strings throughout Africa than did Guterres' Portugal.  Guterres' son Pedro Guimarães e Melo De Oliveira Guterres' untold business links in Lusophone countries include Angola.

    Guterres' oil connections were not limited to Angola: he was getting paid by Lisbon based Gulbenkian Foundation which in terms was turned by oil company Partex, with business in Angola, that UN briber CEFC China Energy in turn tried to buy.   

   Inner City Press asked about this, and was roughed up by Guterres' UN Security and banned from entering the UN. Guterres' designated censor Melissa Fleming has continued this ban, with no appeals process. His spokesman Stephane Dujarric said he would answer written question from banned Inner City Press. 

 No answers at all, and those whom Guterres, Melissa Fleming and Dujarric allowed into their noon press briefing on January 20 did not ask about #LuandaLeaks, or anything in Africa. It's Guterres' big scam. And it must be ended. Watch this site. 

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