UN GATE,
Dec 30 –
As inside the increasingly
marginal United Nations a
process begins to select a
successor to Antonio Guterres
who banned
Inner City
Press from the
UN as it
reported on
his links
with briber
CEFC China
Energy and to
sex trafficker
Ghislaine
Maxwell,
it is time to review the
history. Part 14:
On
November 20, 2017 a second UN
corruption shoe dropped on
Antonio Guterres. The US
Attorney for the Southern
District of New York issued an
indictment against former
Senegal foreign minister
Cheikh Gadio and head of the
China Energy Fund Committee
Patrick Ho for bribes for oil
concessions in Uganda, and
Chad.
As noted,
CEFC during the year Guterres
was paid by the Gulbenkian
Foundation had tried to buy
Gulbenkian's oil company. Then
Guterres omitted Gulbenkian
from his public financial
disclosure.
The cover
up continued,
ham-handedly. At noon on
November 21 Inner City Press
asked Guterres spokesman
Farhan Haq about the
indictment and CEFC and its $5
million grant program with UN
DESA.
Guterres had a 5:45 pm photo
op with the "Winners of the
Annual Award of the UN Grant
on Sustainable Energy" - which
seems to have been funded by
China Energy Fund Committee,
under the heading "Powering
the Future We Want." He
"canceled," but his Deputy
Amina J. Mohammed was still
listed giving remarks for / at
the event at 1 pm, though at
5:30 pm those remarks were not
on her website unlike later
2:30 pm remarks.
The
UN was getting more corrupt
daily, and Press questions
were mounting. There would be
only one solution: expulsion
of the Press.
More on this
UNgutted 15 - and UN
Censorship Alliance Kangeroo
court coming together -
on X for Subscribers here
and Substack here
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