| Lazzarini
No Answers in SDNY
or from UN Spox on
Corruption as
Bluewashed in UNHQ
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
Dec 29 – With Phillippe
Lazzarini being celebrated in
the empty and increasingly
irrelevant UN - while he is
being sued in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
and asserting immunity rather
than offering any substantive
defense or explanation - below
are some questions left
unanswered for two years by UN
spokesperson including
Stephane Dujarric.
(Note that on
December 28 Dujarric received
a very specific question /
staff allegation from Inner
City Press and has not
answered, even to deny. That
story is coming).
On Lazzarini,
Inner City Press received and
asked:
Dear
Matthew
Russell Lee /
Inner City
Press:
Lazzarini,
upon his
arrival,
assigned an
official UNRWA
vehicle for
more than a
year to be
used by his
wife.
The car gets
hit by his
wife and
repaired at
the expense of
the Agency
when the
accident was
reported as
official.
We
are a group of
UNRWA staff,
here are
Examples:
1- A Senior
Director was
recruited at
D1 level when
he failed the
P5 interview
10 months
earlier.
This was a
direct
intervention
of Christian
Saunders when
he was acting
USG of the
Agency.
2-
That same
Senior
Director who
is a former
colleague and
a friend of
the director
of HR bullies
staff.
When staff
report those
actions to the
ethics office
and to the
internal audit
department,
the complaints
are
ignored.
We
have copies of
the two
contracts with
same ToRs but
different
amounts of
fees.
On
the morning of
February 6,
2023 Inner
City Press
sent the above
for comment to
dozens of UN
officials, and
Malta's
Mission to the
UN under
Vanessa
Frazier, as
UNSC president
for February.
No answer at
all. And now
Frazier has
been given a
UN job, a
clear conflict
of interest
right after
her (non)
oversight
position on
the UN
Security
Council.
The
whistleblowers
updated Inner
City Press
and, they
hoped, the
member states:
"Dear
Matthew,
We thank you
for your help
and your
efforts to
present the
truth about
corruptions
within the
UN. WE
appreciate
your
help.
Noone else
seems to care
and not even
the official
channels of
the
UN....
Touma
discovered
that one of
her team
members is
married to her
ex-boyfriends.
Touma bullied
that staff
member until
she quit under
duress.
The main
question is
When will
donors act and
demand
investigations?"
When, indeed.
***
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