UN
Fraudulent Coin Offering With
China and Ambassador UNacted
On By Guterres and PGA
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive; update
UN GATE, Sept 28
– A UN diplomat who helped
previously UN briber Francis
Lorenzo launder money, Carlos
Garcia, was never disciplined
as UN Secretary General
Antonio Guterres is focused on
covering up his own links to
UN bribery. Today Inner City
Press can report that Carlos
Garcia is still misusing the
UN name, selling fraudulent
coins in South Korea. Allowing
this is the fault of Guterres,
the most corrupt Secretary
General in the UN's history.
At the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York,
Inner City Press covered the
first UN bribery case and reported on Garcia's
role pressuring the Central
Bank of the Dominican Republic
to not report and to allow
passage of Lorenzo's bribe
money. In the second case,
Inner City Press reported
daily on the prosecution and
conviction of Patrick Ho of
CEFC China Energy which tried
to buy the oil company of
Gulbenkian Foundation which
paid Guterres money he refused
to disclose, choosing instead
to rough up and ban Inner City
Press.
Now
reporting daily from the SDNY
and the UN
gate, Inner City Press
during the UNGA high week it
is banned from by Guterres is
exclusively reporting a coin
offering "World
United Coins" [update:
this link went offline once this
report was published; update here]
in South Korea and elsewhere involving
Carlos Garcia, the UN money
laundering, stating it has the
support of Antonio Guterres
and President of the General
Assembly Tijjani
Muhammad-Bande
who has joined
Guterres in
his
censorship.
See photos here.
The website
says, "The
United Nations
gives the
World Unicom
Certificate a
high degree of
development
recognition,"
with a photo
of Guterres
with all his
undisclosed
Chinese
bribery links.
It says, " The
newly elected
74th President
of the General
Assembly,
Bandy, met
with Charles
LU on the
evening of
September 17th
to
congratulate
the success of
the Global
Exchange on
September 16
and highly
recognized the
World Unicom
Certificate in
the past year.
In the amazing
development
speed and
achievements
in the field
of digital
finance, we
recognize that
WUC has
earnestly
fulfilled its
founding
mission and
made a real
contribution
to improving
the lives of
people in
developing
countries
around the
world."
Garcia's Instagram
account says:
"ambcarlosgarcia
Today we had a
great meeting
in our office.
Our
co-Chairman,
Mr. Charles Lu
comeback from
Beijing, and
we met with
two strategic
representatives
from OPAD, the
Organization
for Poverty
Alleviation
and
Development,
Mr. Peter
Kamara , and
Mr. Al Shek
with a view to
strengthening
our
collaborative
efforts in
promoting the
United Nations
Sustainable
Development
Goals. #OPAD
#UNA-SV
#pastorrodneyhowardbrowne
#ElSalvador
#SierraLeone."
This UNA-SV
group sponsors
the fraudulent
coins.
These
people should
be arrested.
All of them -
to the very
top. A fish
rots from the
head, and
that's corrupt
Guterres, the
censor.
While UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres was refusing
throughout 2018 to begin any
UN audit into China Energy
Fund Committee, implicated in
the UN bribery prosecution US
v Patrick Ho, Guterres had a
secret: his role
on the board of Gulbenkian
Foundation which was trying to
sell
its Partex Oil affiliate to
CEFC. See Inner City Press'
first exclusive report here.
A
now-removed
Gulbenkian Foundation web page
says Guterres continued as a
board member into 2018. Archived
here.
In
fact it was on 9 February 2018
that Gulbenian tweeted
that Guterres was no longer on
the board - AFTER it was
reported that Gulbenian was
trying to sell, or even had
already sold, Partex to CEFC.
This is called guilty
knowledge.
While
Guterres' spokesman Stephane
Dujarric is refusing to answer
Inner City Press' written
questions, contrary to
promises by Guterres' Global
Communicator Alison Smale, it
appears Guterres' evasive
defense is claiming that he
left Gulbenkian in November
2016 and therefore somehow had
no conflict of interest in
refusing and blocking the
obviously needed UN audit of
CEFC after the arrest of its
Patrick Ho for UN bribery.
This defense is dubious.
Why did
Gulbenkian take
down its webpage
disclosing that Guterres
remained on board into 2018?
Why - sixteen months after
Guterres ostensibly left - did
they wait until February 2018
to tweet
that he left? Because their
negotiations with CEFC became
public (see 2 February 2018
Bloomberg here,
and 6 February MacauHub here:
"CEFC China Energy buys
Portugal’s Partex Oil &
Gas.")
In any
event, Guterres' "2017"
Financial Disclosure, which
explicitly says it covered the
year 2016 in which even in
this new story he remained on
Gulbenkian's board into
November, more than 80% of the
year - did not disclose his
role in Gulbenkian, only on
the Club of Madrid. Guterres
has had previous financial
disclosure omissions, for
example in Portugal, here.
CEFC was hardly unknown: it
bought a Portuguese insurance
company in November 2017, here.
Guterres' failure to disclose
and, separately and even more
so, his refusal to audit CEFC
in the UN was a direct
conflict of interest, which he
has tried to cover up by
roughing up and banning Inner
City Press which asked him
about it. (See January 2018
press conference here,
July 2018 roughing up by
Guterres' UN Security here,
banning letter via Press
Freedom Tracker here.)
Three times now
Dujarric, his deputy Farhan
Haq and Office of the
Spokesperson colleagues Marcia
Soares Pinto
and Keishamaza
Rukikaire, as
well as
Guterres, his
chief of staff
Maria Luiza
Ribeiro Viotti
and Deputy SG
Amina J.
Mohammed have
refused to
answer this:
"Beyond the 36
questions from
Inner City
Press you
refused to
answer last
week, still
set forth
below for
promised
answer, this
is a
reiterated
request past
deadline that
you (1) state
when SG
Guterres left
his position
on the
Gulbenkian
Foundation,
(2) state why
Gulbenkian was
not listed on
SG Guterres'
public
financial
disclosure
which covered
2016; (3)
explain how it
is not a
conflict of
interest for
SG Guterres to
have refused
to start an
audit of CEFC
in the UN, as
requested by
Inner City
Press in
January 2018,
given CEFC's
bid for the
oil business
of Gulbenkian.
Also, again,
state why
under SG
Guterres there
have been no
updates to the
UN public
financial
disclosures
since those
filed for
2016. Also,
again, explain
your refusal
to answer any
of Inner City
Press'
questions this
week despite
USG Smale's
statements to
GAP, me and UNSR
David Kaye."
No response at
all, even as
spokesman
Dujarric for
example tweets
at actor Seth
Rogin.
Dujarric, as
simply
one example, on 1 March
2018 evaded
Inner City
Press'
in-person
questions
about CEFC and
Guterres, less
than a month
after Gulbenkian said
Guterres was
off the board,
amid oil negotiations
with CEFC. Video
here.
Then
Guterres and
Dujarric had
Inner City
Press roughed
up and banned
from the UN. Guterres'
wife Catarina
Vaz Pinto also
worked for Gulbenkian. This
is today's
corrupt UN.
For
years Guterres received money
as a board member of the
Calouste Galbenkian
Foundation, which despite its
name is the 100% owner of
Partex Oil and Gas. Partex
has operations in Angola, Abu
Dhabi, Brazil, Kazakhstan, the
Netherlands, Oman and
Portugal. It was to a
Portuguese court that
Guterres, while justifying
no listing some of his income,
disclosed in 2016 that he was
paid at least € 2735 per month
for his position with the
Gulbenkian Foundation.
But
while a now deleted Foundation
web page (archived here)
stated that Guterres continued
with Gulbenkian into 2018,
Guterres did not list it on
his most
recent, and so far lone,
UN Public Financial
Disclosure, which covered 2016
("Disclosing financial and
other interests for the 2016
reporting year").
So why did
Guterres disclose his position
with the Club of Madrid, but not
with the Gulbenkian Foundation
/ Partex Oil and Gas? It is
worth noting that Guterres'
wife Catarina Vaz Pinto has
also been connected
to Gulbenkian.
Following the roughing up and
banning from the UN of Inner
City Press which has covered
the CEFC scandal throughout,
Guterres' head of Global
Communications Alison Smale promised
UN Special Rapporteur for
Freedom of Expression David
Kaye, who asked,
that the UN would still answer
Inner City Press' written
questions.
But
as 2018 came to a close
Guterres' spokesmen Stephane
Dujarric and Farhan Haq left
unanswered 36 questions in a
row from Inner City Press,
including this: “Beyond the 35
questions from Inner City
Press you refused to answer
this week, this is a request
on deadline that you (1) state
when SG Guterres left his
position on the Gulbenkian
Foundation,
(2) state why
Gulbenkian was not listed on
SG Guterres' public financial
disclosure which covered 2016;
(3) explain how
it is not a conflict of
interest for SG Guterres to
have refused to start an audit
of CEFC in the UN, as
requested by Inner City Press
in January 2018, given CEFC's
bid for the oil business of
Gulbenkian.
Also, again,
state why under SG Guterres
there have been no updates to
the UN public financial
disclosures since those filed
for 2016. Also, again, explain
your refusal to answer any of
Inner City Press' questions
this week despite USG Smale's
statements to GAP, me and UNSR
David Kaye. On deadline.”
The
question was also sent to the
e-mail addresses of Guterres,
his chief of staff Maria Luiza
Ribeiro Viotti, his Deputy
Amina J. Mohammed, and Smale,
who earlier in the week told
Inner City Press she would
take “under advisement” her 17
August 2018 pretextual
withdrawal of Inner City Press
decade long UN media
accreditation.
It seems clear that
Guterres and his team have
engaged in censorship for
corruption, to conceal a
blatant conflict of interest
by Guterres. It has been
raised by Inner City Press to
the UN Office of Internal
Oversight Services, and
others. Watch this site.
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