| Amid UN80
Pay to Play Appeal on UN
Pension Fund as ESCAP Fat
Cats Stay as Local Staff
Cut
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
April 21 – How corrupt is
today's UN under Antonio
Guterres? Now after Guterres
fled Davos before speaking,
only to robo-tweet from the
Sutton Place mansion he lives
in, UN staff fret his cuts
will be unfair, citing just
that as ESCAP and elsewhere.
Now from an
appeal in the UN "Justice"
system (which also banned
Inner City Press for
reporting), this: "On 24
November 2021, during an OIOS
investigation involving a
complaint against Mr. Hunt,
OIOS seized his laptop and
other information
communication technology (ICT)
devices. It identified e-mails
implicating ABH in potential
unsatisfactory conduct.
Specifically, ABH appeared in
e-mail exchanges involving the
use of personal accounts to
share contact details of a
journalist and encouraging
staff members to meet with
that journalist to discuss
internal OIM matters, as well
as references to sharing
OIM-related information with
blogs critical of OIM. As a
result, on 18 March 2022,
allegations against ABH were
predicated for investigation.
11 13. On 13 May 2022,
OIOS met with ABH to recover
his officially assigned ICT
devices, including his United
Nations-issued cellphone. When
asked whether he had deleted
anything from those devices,
ABH stated that “he had
deleted WhatsApp and the NYU
Langone Health application
from his iPhone, as it
contained personal medical
information”. 12 14. On
30 December 2022, OIOS
completed its investigation
and issued its Investigation
Report, in which it concluded,
inter alia, that:13 (i) Having
been notified that his
officially assigned ICT
devices were required by OIOS
in furtherance of an
authorised investigation,
[ABH] deliberately deleted
information from his official
iPhone; and (ii) [ABH]: a.
Discussed official OIM matters
with [M.R.], former UNJSPF
Pension Administration staff
member and former de facto
Staff Representative (now
separated from service), who
he would have known posted
information critical of the
OIM leadership’s decisions
regarding [ABH]’s area of
business, on blogs and social
media" - yes, blogs and social
media. Censorship and
retaliation. Today's UN.
This as UN
staff tell Inner City Press
things have hit a new low
about which his spokespeople
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming refuse all Press
questions. This is about
inequitable cuts at UN ESCAP
in Thailand:
Dear Matthew
Russell Lee,
The plan for
abolishment from
UN-ESCAP is directed
only at GS staff, while senior
positions—P-5, D-1, D-2, and
USG—remain untouched. The
salary of a single one of
these officials is equivalent
to that of fifty or more local
staff members. If justice
truly mattered, it would be
these high-level posts under
review—not the livelihoods of
ordinary staff.
Guterres
appears increasingly
surrounded by what staff
describe as “phone-call human
resource advisors and legal
officers.”
Martha Helena Lopez, the
Secretary-General’s senior
advisor on human resources,
has become emblematic of this
“don’t care” policy. Observers
note she looks fatigued, more
focused on retirement than on
strengthening governance.
Ironic.
Guterres,
they say, should end
censorship. Application was
made on June 19, 2025, denied
six months later still without
any explanation at all. Watch
this site.
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