UN
Guterres Is Conflicted By Son's
Business in Malawi and Timor
Leste Whose Ramos Horta He
Rebuffed
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, CJR Letter
PFT, Video
UN GATE,
June 30 – Before Inner City
Press was roughed up by UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres' Security on June
22 and July
3, 2018 and under a ban
on entry since then, which his
spokesman on August 30 called
settled or final, it
insistently asked about
Guterres' conflicts of
interest, for example with murderous
Cameroon chairing the UN
Budget Committee where
Guterres sought support or
with the business interests of
his family, as for disclosure
of how many of Guterres'
publicly funded trip took him
through his real home, Lisbon.
(The answer, with no UN help,
was at least 14 at the time
Guterres had Inner City Press
roughed up and thrown out of
the UN.)
Now questions are
not
being answered, across the
board, by Spokesman Stephane
Dujarric, and Guterres has had
Inner City Press banned
from the UN for life, by his
Global Communicator Melissa
Fleming who has failed to make
even the minimal public
financial disclosure called
for under Guterres'
predecessor Ban Ki-moon.
Guterres' forms do not include
the business interests of his
direct children - but they
should. Because, as Inner City
Press now for the first time
reports, there is a Pedro
Guterres who is listed
as the Chief Financial
Officer, Mota-Engil Africa BV
- a company engaged in
discrimination of Malawi, here.
Before
publishing this story, Inner
City Press in writing asked
Guterres, Dujarric, Fleming
and others to confirm or deny
- that is, to Verify - that
this Pedro is Guterres' son.
Inner City Press asked them:
"immediately confirm or deny
this is SG Guterres' son Pedro
- important to note any
conflicts of interest, here."
No
answer at all - even as
Fleming takes
money from IKEA and
Pierre Omidyar's Luminate
for "Share Verified" to
supposedly expand transparency
and help independent media.
Just as no answers on the UN
sexploitation Inner City Press
first exposed on June 23, here.
These people are a fraud.
Watch this site.
Previously
Pedro Guterres has been
Manager of Planning and
Control at PT Portugal since
2009, see here.
And "PT Portugal has
significant interests in
telecommunications companies
in Angola, Cape Verde, Namibia
and São Tomé and Principe in
Africa and in Timor-Leste in
Asia," see US SEC filing here.
(Guterres recently rebuffed,
in an entreaty to stop banning
Inner City Press, Time Leste's
Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Jose Ramos Horta, here).
Given that his father, as a UN
Secretary General who has
shown himself willing to stay
quiet of the deaths of
Anglophone Cameroonians to
gain the support of Cameroon's
Ambassador as chair of the UN
Budget Committee, has and can
impact on each of these
countries, where are the
clearly needed controls
against conflict of interest?
Inner City Press Periscop
stand-up, here. As Guterres
flies off for a business
confab about Africa and China
from September 1 to 4,
complete with 100 businesses
from Cameroon
where Guterres is complicit in
the crackdown, how is he
recusing himself there and in
New York (and Lisbon) from
involvement in things
impacting where his son's
company does business and
makes money? We'll have more
on this.
Previously: "I
request that
you
immediately
lift the
immunity of
the Secretary
General, as he
holds
responsibility
as the ‘Chief
Administrative
Officer’ of
the
Secretariat
for my
physical
ejection from
the UN
premises on 4
July 2018,
detailed in
the attached
complaint to
the NYC police
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