In
UNMIK Corruption Continues
with NY Salaries and Gin After
Sex Toy Scandal
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UN GATE, Jan 19 –
Antonio Guterres continues
banning the Press from the
UN. He's put the UN in
the Press Freedom Tracker, here.
And so on 3 July 2019, this
video, and this.
On March 14,
2022, this: "Dear
Matthew, I would like to
share with you the latest
update in relation to the
investigation for sexual
abuses and frauds related to
UNMIK CMS, Ms. Sandi
Arnold.
As per attached
UNDT judgement. Ms. Arnold,
has been suspended for three
months with ALWP."
Jump cut to
September 3, 2025 - despite
the (light) penalty, and a
recent UNDT case citing "Inner
Circle Press," Arnold is still
in a UN promotional video
still online, recruiting, here.
This was raised to USG Melissa
Fleming, who has also not
answered Press freedom
question from pro bono law
firms Quinn Emanuel and Duane
Morris - no answers, no
explanation.
And, long
after Inner City Press began
exposing this particular
corner of UN corruption,
banned from the UN by corrupt
UNSG Guterres, Arnold was
subject to the lightest form
of discipline. UNDT ruling now
put online by Inner City Press
on its DocumentCloud here.
And now on
January 19, 2026, from
whistleblowers: "Dear Matthew
Russell Lee, We
have been reading your reports
of corrupt cms for a long
time, and now must report what
is happening in UNMIK.
The new CMS Elizabeth Turnbull
Brown is as corrupt as others
we have witnessed. Brought in
from NY through her
connections to controler,
instead of using the well
qualified P5 on the ground,
she has cost the mission over
250,000 in salary. This is
during the well known
financial crisis, where she
now presided over firing or
forcing to retire 25% of unmik
staff.
Now we find out
she's as corrupt as others
mentioned by your reporting.
Instead of receiving Kosova
salary, she is receiving NY
salary, stating her husband is
in New York, while all the
time he has been in the
mission. We even drove him
from the airport when she
arrived. New York salary is
double of Prishtina, and she
said she made a deal with
SRSG.
Her extra salary,
and UNMIK continued payment
for projects that do nothing,
could have saved other staff
with families and years of
experience. [Inner City Press
has the HR memos]. Those
who speak out, like the chief
legal affairs, are forced into
early retirement. Or like well
qualified chief service
delivery, who was fired by her
for no cause, even knowing he
had a special needs son and
needed the entitlements to pay
for his son medical expenses.
Like in Colombia
mission, two young mothers,
one with special needs child,
were also fired, again
justifying it under budgetary
constraints. Anyone who
dares to speak, she makes sure
to mention her controller
connection to threaten them,
he was in UNMIK for a visit,
to make sure her selection is
guaranteed. No work is being
done, as she is only
interested in saying it's time
for her gin and tonic, while
most of the time she says she
is working from home, as all
of us are forced into office
and not allowed to use
flexible working
arrangements. Of
course, nobody will speak up,
her and HR will make sure you
are fired. This is reported to
OIOS, but they will never do
anything."
Watch this site.
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