UN of
Guterres Raids Office of Second Budget
Official After Seized Evidence Of UN Wrong
Doing From Wilson
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive CJR PFT
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, June 12 – A
senior UN
staff member
who even UN
judges
described as
trying to
clean up the
corruption in
the
Organization
had his office
raided
and computer
search and
seized by what
has become the
retaliation
team of
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres.
Now as
the UN refuses
to answer
questions, at
least one other
has been
raided.
Inner
City Press
first received
and published
this sample
plea from UN
staff,
anonymous for
fear of yet
more
retaliation by
Guterres:
"From:
[ ]
@guerrillamail [dot]
com
Date: Sun, Jun
9, 2019 at
1:17 AM
Subject:
info
To:
Matthew.Lee
[at]
innercitypress [dot]
com
I write
you inform to
you about Tony
Wilson,
Director in UN
Management.
Wilson
complained to
the big bosses
about
retaliation
after he made
reports to
Investigations.
He won at UN
court but gave
up when he got
sick and not
been at work
since. Last
week his desk
was raided by
Investigations.
Bosses told
all staff that
all his
equipment and
files were
taken, in a
meeting, and
the Wilson is
investigated.
We hear he is
suspended.
This is the
response by
bosses. Staff
are scared of
reporting
anything."
Inner City
Press,
banned from even
entering the
UN now for 344
days in an
earlier
Guterres
retaliation
move, in
writing asked
Guterres, his
Deputy Amina J.
Mohammed and
spokesmen
Stephane
Dujarric and Farhan
Haq to "please
immediately
explain the
raid on the
office and
computer of
Tony Wilson,
Chief,
Financial
Policy and
Internal
Controls at
the D-1 level
with the
Office of
Programme
Planning,
Finance and
Budget, and
provide the
SG's response
to this
sent to Inner
City Press by
UN staff
worried about
further
retaliation."
Two
days later,
including
after a noon
briefing run
by Associate
Spokesperson
Eri Kaneko, no
answer from
the UN at all. But
this, to
Inner City
Press, from
yet another UN
raided
staff:
"My
computers were
also taken for
this
investigation.
I got them
back the next
day supposedly
because they
weren't
supposed to
take them. I'm
still not sure
if I'm under
investigation
or
not.
Tony Wilson
had been my
Director since
like 2006
until the
recent 'reforms.'"
These are Guterres'
"reforms" -
targeting
his own
staff for
raids and
terror, roughing up
and banning
the Press that
asks.
Tellingly, in
terms of the
need for
outside
intervention,
investigation
and
prosecution of
Guterres and
his UN, Wilson
whom he raided
and seized
evidence from
to cover it up
has been the
Chief,
Financial
Policy and
Internal
Controls at
the D-1 level
with the
Office of
Programme
Planning,
Finance and
Budget. That
position has
information of
the expanding
corruption by
Guterres and
his UN.
Here's
from just one
of the UN
internal
justice system
decisions
involving
Wilson:
"Following
a series of
CMD’s at which
the issues in
the cases were
discussed, it
appeared to
the Tribunal
that the
ongoing
litigation
between the
parties may
not
necessarily be
in the best
interest of
the individual
staff member
or the
Organization.
In particular,
the Tribunal
noted that an
unusual
feature of
these cases
was that the
Applicant was
not seeking
financial
recompense but
was taking a
principled
approach to
highlight what
he regarded as
individual and
systemic
failures to
uphold the
high standards
set by art.
101.3 of the
Charter of the
United
Nations, which
provides:
'The
paramount
consideration
in the
employment of
the staff and
in the
determination
of the
conditions of
service shall
be the
necessity of
securing the
highest
standards of
efficiency,
competence,
and integrity.
Due regard
shall be paid
to the
importance of
recruiting the
staff on as
wide a
geographical
basis as
possible.'
"Although
the Applicant
was concerned
and distressed
by the manner
in which he
had been
treated, he
made it plain
that he was
keen to
explore, in a
constructive
manner, a
resolution of
his complaints
but also had
in mind the
ancillary
benefit to
other staff
members if the
issues of
principle that
he had raised
were properly
addressed."
Then
Guterres'
response to
was to have
Wilson's
office raided
and evidence
seized. There
needs to be an
outside
investigation
and
accountability.
Watch this
site.
In
other, more
hopeful news,
the
UN's introduction
of cholera
into Haiti,
killing tens
of thousands
of Haitians
and injuring a
million more,
has arrived at
the U.S. Supreme
Court. A cert
petition
recently filed
states "it
has never been
explained to
the
Petitioners by
any court how
the UN can
assume a
liability that
is enforceable
nowhere."
Inner
City Press,
now daily
covering the
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York while
banned
from any entry
into the UN by
Guterres, will
be in
writing asking
the UN about
this cert
petition, on
which amici
are soon to be
heard from.
Watch this
site, @InnerCityPress
and now @SDNYLIVE.
The UN
banned Inner
City Press, so it
could not ask the
question in
person. Petition
to Guterres
here; GAP
blogs I
and II (“Harassment
of US
Journalist
Intensifies at
the
UN”). Guterres
through Alison
Smale made it
a lifetime ban
on
17 August 2018, with no due process. On July 16,
while awaiting
the
"investigation"
the UN
promised,
Inner City
Press e-mailed
Guterres'
deputy
spokesman
Farhan Haq,
"Haitian Prime
Minister Jack
Guy Lafontant
resigned,
after
civilians were
killed
protesting
fuel price
subsidy cuts.
Again, that is
the comment of
UNSG and the
UN Mission,
given what the
UN has done
there
including by
introducing
cholera and
not paying
reparations of
any kind?"
First
there was no
answer - Haq
couldn't have
been busy,
with Inner
City Press
banned there
were only four
questioners in
the day's noon
briefing. So
Inner City
Press asked
again, cc-ing
Guterres'
Deputy Amina
J. Mohammed
and his
Communicator
Alison Smale,
among others.
Haq replied,
"your email
has been
received and
we are
following up
on answers."
But by the end
of the day, as
Inner City
Press covered
a court
hearing about
convicted UN
bribery Ng Lap
Seng, nothing.
This
is a project
for the Free
UN Coalition
for Access,
@FUNCA_info.
Watch these
sites and
feeds.
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