| UN Corruption in Colombia
Includes Abuse by Guterres Rep
Ruiz Now Transferring to Haiti
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN
GATE,
Nov 14 – How corrupt is
today's UN under Antonio
Guterres? Today's example is
from Colombia, on which Spox
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming have refused all
written questions from banned
Inner City Press:
Dear
Matthew, Following
the information and warnings
you previously reported, it’s
now widely acknowledged within
UNVMC that corruption has
taken deep root, with figures
like SRSG Carlos Ruiz, Chief
HR Mar Brusola, and her
partner Chief Conduct and
Discipline Federico Ledesma
heavily involved. The recent
allegations only add to
Brusola’s documented history
of corrupt practices, as
outlined in prior Inner City
Press reports. Her actions
demonstrate a disturbing
pattern of favoritism,
manipulation, and abuse of
power.
[Note: Carlos
Ruiz is aware of the banning
of Inner City Press, and has
done nothing]
Now after
Guterres' OIOS wrote to Inner
City Press asking it to
confirm and locate a
whistleblower - pure abuse,
rejected by Inner City Press -
now this:
Dear Matthew
Russell Lee:
A senior United
Nations official is facing
serious allegations of
misconduct, favoritism and
abuse of authority following
an internal complaint related
to his previous tenure in
Colombia. Carlos Gabriel
Ruiz Massieu Aguirre,
currently serving as the UN
Secretary-General’s Special
Representative in Haiti (since
August 2025), is alleged to
have engaged in a
long-standing romantic
relationship with a direct
subordinate during his time as
SRSG of the UN Verification
Mission in Colombia (UNVMC).
The relationship
remained undisclosed to the UN
Ethics Office or senior
leadership at UN Headquarters,
despite UN regulations
requiring full transparency
where conflicts of interest
may arise. According to
sources and internal
documentation, Mr. Massieu
began a personal relationship
with Ms. Loreto Ferrer Moreu,
initially his P-3 Senior
Administrative Assistant.
Shortly after, on 3 June 2021,
Ms. Ferrer was promoted to a
P-4 Special Assistant post
reporting directly to him.
Then, on 1 April 2024, she was
elevated again, this time to a
P-5 Senior Political Affairs
Officer post, where Mr.
Massieu was reportedly the
hiring manager and both her
First and Second Reporting
Officer. What raises
alarm is not just the rapid
career trajectory, but that
Ms. Ferrer had previously
failed the required
competitive process for
Political Affairs Officer
roles.
Only after her
relationship with Mr. Massieu
began did Ms. Ferrer receive
successive promotions. Staff
members have also raised
serious concerns about the
involvement of Chief Human
Resources, Ms. Mar Brusola,
whose management of
recruitment processes is
biased and corrupted.
This is not the first time Mr.
Massieu has faced misconduct
of engaging in romantic
relationships with
subordinates. During his SRSG
assignment in UNMVC, he was
priorly involved in a romantic
relationship with another
subordinate administrative
assistant, Ms. Daniela Vargas,
a national staff member, whom
he helped secure a P-3 role at
UN Headquarters. That
relationship became public
after it was reported by
independent watchdog Inner
City Press.
At that time and
after the article Mr. Massieu
publicly acknowledged the
relationship at a
townhall, claiming he
was engaged to Ms. Vargas
however he never reported the
relationship before as per UN
staff rules. Short after he
started being involved with
Ms. Ferrer. Despite
clear ethical obligations, Mr.
Massieu failed to recuse
himself from any stage of Ms.
Ferrer’s hiring, supervision
or promotion. Internal travel
records suggest they routinely
traveled together on official
business, raising further
questions about the use of
organizational resources for
personal purposes.
In May
2024, Mr. Massieu restructured
the Office of the SRSG and
appointed Ms. Ferrer as its
Head, giving her a team of
six. This move, perceived as
consolidating power around a
romantic partner, has
reportedly damaged staff
morale and contributed to a
culture of favoritism and
exclusion within the
mission. Sources close
to the matter describe an
unhealthy work environment
characterized by nepotism,
preferential treatment and
sidelining of professional
staff. “It’s a textbook
example of institutional
breakdown through unchecked
personal influence,” one
official stated
anonymously. Legal
experts and ethics officers
familiar say that failing to
disclose a romantic
relationship with a direct
subordinate, particularly when
hiring and promotion decisions
are involved, constitutes a
clear breach of UN Staff
Regulations and the standards
of conduct expected of senior
leadership.
Mr. Massieu
is now reportedly working to
have Ms. Ferrer transferred to
the UN mission in Haiti, where
he currently leads.
The UN’s
Office of Internal Oversight
Services (OIOS) is being urged
to initiate an investigation
--
Wait, the same
OIOS which wrote to Inner City
Press asking it to confirm and
locate a whistleblower?
Today's UN is corrupt and must
be made to stop banning Press.
***
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