UN Mulls Tells Israel & Jordan of "Possible Misconduct" of UN Staff in Jerusalem, Leak Shows
By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive
UNITED NATIONS, August 4 – A UN document leaked to Inner City Press, addressed to the UN's Legal Counsel, seeks guidance on whether to tell Israel and Jordan about "possible misconduct implicating United Nations personnel assigned at the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) mission in Jerusalem, Israel." The request, addressed to UN Legal Counsel Miguel de Serpa Soares from Felista Ondari, UNSCO Chief Mission Support, says "on behalf of the UNSCO Head of Mission Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, I am hereby seeking the good services of your office to provide the HoM with advise as to whether the findings of the investigation should be referred to the national authorities of Israel and Jordan for consideration and action." What has Soares of UN Headquarters advised? We'll have more on this. After the UN bribery verdict of six guilty counts against Ng Lap Seng was delivered by the jury late on July 27, UN Spokesman Farhan Haq who has repeatedly dodged questions about the case from Inner City Press was quoted by Reuters that the UN was "a victim of these crimes" and later that "We are exploring the possibility of requesting restitution as a victim to these crimes, including recovering expenses incurred to provide the requested cooperation." Inner City Press asked UN Spokesman Haq on July 28 to explain how the UN is the victim, and how it dares say it should be get for corruption. Video 8 from Minute 8:40. Haq said, This is the position of our Legal Council. Now Inner City Press has asked above. Watch this site.
The UN even refused to tell the prosecution whom it spoke to for its Task Force Report, which said it has no ethical standards. The UN will ask for money, while paying nothing to the 10,000 people it killed in Haiti? Reuters doesn't even raise that - it has a conflict of interest. UN official Ion Butnaru put the name of Ng's company Sun Kian Ip Group into a General Assembly resolution long after it was voted on, took a free trip to Macau and an iPad there. Victim? Ng's company South South News bought full page ads in the ball program of the UN Correspondents Association, then went to their ball at Cipriani and got photos with then Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. (Reuters then as now had a seat on UNCA's board, something not disclosed in its coverage of Ng and the UN). A current UN official Meena Sur was shown in the trial to have held on Ng's brochure for his planned Macau conference Center. The UN remains UNreformed. Inner City Press, which has covered the scandal from the beginning and remains restricted by the UN for its coverage, rushed down to the courthouse and asked Ng Lap Seng, as he left by the side door to Worth Street, what he thinks of the UN and those there who took his money and favors, a list well beyond John Ashe and Francis Lorenzo. Periscope video here. He did not answer, understandable. He will be back in court on August 7 for arguments on if his house arrest can continue. Before Ng left, Inner City Press witnessed his lawyers leaving. They told the judge they will appeal. But now that Ng is guilty, will the UN act on those exposed as corrupt, and reverse its censorship?
Ng Lap Seng's $3 billion UN convention center plan had been assisted by Meena Sur, still working for the UN Department of General Assembly and Conference Management. Inner City Press asked the UN spokesman Farhan Haq, who dodged by saying the UN was waiting for the verdict. But the UN is not on trial, because it has and cited immunity.
Likewise, high UN official Navid Hanif attended Ng Lap Seng's murky event in Macau in August 2015, and remains at at the UN. Spokesman Haq refused to answer about him, while telling Inner City Press that lower UN staff member Frances Fuller “separated from service” in September 2016, just after Inner City Press asked abo
UN Mulls Tells Israel & Jordan of "Possible Misconduct" of UN Staff in Jerusalem, Leak Shows
By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive
UNITED NATIONS, August 4 – A UN document leaked to Inner City Press, addressed to the UN's Legal Counsel, seeks guidance on whether to tell Israel and Jordan about "possible misconduct implicating United Nations personnel assigned at the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) mission in Jerusalem, Israel." The request, addressed to UN Legal Counsel Miguel de Serpa Soares from Felista Ondari, UNSCO Chief Mission Support, says "on behalf of the UNSCO Head of Mission Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, I am hereby seeking the good services of your office to provide the HoM with advise as to whether the findings of the investigation should be referred to the national authorities of Israel and Jordan for consideration and action." What has Soares of UN Headquarters advised? We'll have more on this. After the UN bribery verdict of six guilty counts against Ng Lap Seng was delivered by the jury late on July 27, UN Spokesman Farhan Haq who has repeatedly dodged questions about the case from Inner City Press was quoted by Reuters that the UN was "a victim of these crimes" and later that "We are exploring the possibility of requesting restitution as a victim to these crimes, including recovering expenses incurred to provide the requested cooperation." Inner City Press asked UN Spokesman Haq on July 28 to explain how the UN is the victim, and how it dares say it should be get for corruption. Video 8 from Minute 8:40. Haq said, This is the position of our Legal Council. Now Inner City Press has asked above. Watch this site.
The UN even refused to tell the prosecution whom it spoke to for its Task Force Report, which said it has no ethical standards. The UN will ask for money, while paying nothing to the 10,000 people it killed in Haiti? Reuters doesn't even raise that - it has a conflict of interest. UN official Ion Butnaru put the name of Ng's company Sun Kian Ip Group into a General Assembly resolution long after it was voted on, took a free trip to Macau and an iPad there. Victim? Ng's company South South News bought full page ads in the ball program of the UN Correspondents Association, then went to their ball at Cipriani and got photos with then Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. (Reuters then as now had a seat on UNCA's board, something not disclosed in its coverage of Ng and the UN). A current UN official Meena Sur was shown in the trial to have held on Ng's brochure for his planned Macau conference Center. The UN remains UNreformed. Inner City Press, which has covered the scandal from the beginning and remains restricted by the UN for its coverage, rushed down to the courthouse and asked Ng Lap Seng, as he left by the side door to Worth Street, what he thinks of the UN and those there who took his money and favors, a list well beyond John Ashe and Francis Lorenzo. Periscope video here. He did not answer, understandable. He will be back in court on August 7 for arguments on if his house arrest can continue. Before Ng left, Inner City Press witnessed his lawyers leaving. They told the judge they will appeal. But now that Ng is guilty, will the UN act on those exposed as corrupt, and reverse its censorship?
Ng Lap Seng's $3 billion UN convention center plan had been assisted by Meena Sur, still working for the UN Department of General Assembly and Conference Management. Inner City Press asked the UN spokesman Farhan Haq, who dodged by saying the UN was waiting for the verdict. But the UN is not on trial, because it has and cited immunity.
Likewise, high UN official Navid Hanif attended Ng Lap Seng's murky event in Macau in August 2015, and remains at at the UN. Spokesman Haq refused to answer about him, while telling Inner City Press that lower UN staff member Frances Fuller “separated from service” in September 2016, just after Inner City Press asked abo
UN Mulls Tells Israel & Jordan of "Possible Misconduct" of UN Staff in Jerusalem, Leak Shows
By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive
UNITED NATIONS, August 4 – A UN document leaked to Inner City Press, addressed to the UN's Legal Counsel, seeks guidance on whether to tell Israel and Jordan about "possible misconduct implicating United Nations personnel assigned at the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) mission in Jerusalem, Israel." The request, addressed to UN Legal Counsel Miguel de Serpa Soares from Felista Ondari, UNSCO Chief Mission Support, says "on behalf of the UNSCO Head of Mission Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, I am hereby seeking the good services of your office to provide the HoM with advise as to whether the findings of the investigation should be referred to the national authorities of Israel and Jordan for consideration and action." What has Soares of UN Headquarters advised? We'll have more on this. After the UN bribery verdict of six guilty counts against Ng Lap Seng was delivered by the jury late on July 27, UN Spokesman Farhan Haq who has repeatedly dodged questions about the case from Inner City Press was quoted by Reuters that the UN was "a victim of these crimes" and later that "We are exploring the possibility of requesting restitution as a victim to these crimes, including recovering expenses incurred to provide the requested cooperation." Inner City Press asked UN Spokesman Haq on July 28 to explain how the UN is the victim, and how it dares say it should be get for corruption. Video 8 from Minute 8:40. Haq said, This is the position of our Legal Council. Now Inner City Press has asked above. Watch this site.
The UN even refused to tell the prosecution whom it spoke to for its Task Force Report, which said it has no ethical standards. The UN will ask for money, while paying nothing to the 10,000 people it killed in Haiti? Reuters doesn't even raise that - it has a conflict of interest. UN official Ion Butnaru put the name of Ng's company Sun Kian Ip Group into a General Assembly resolution long after it was voted on, took a free trip to Macau and an iPad there. Victim? Ng's company South South News bought full page ads in the ball program of the UN Correspondents Association, then went to their ball at Cipriani and got photos with then Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. (Reuters then as now had a seat on UNCA's board, something not disclosed in its coverage of Ng and the UN). A current UN official Meena Sur was shown in the trial to have held on Ng's brochure for his planned Macau conference Center. The UN remains UNreformed. Inner City Press, which has covered the scandal from the beginning and remains restricted by the UN for its coverage, rushed down to the courthouse and asked Ng Lap Seng, as he left by the side door to Worth Street, what he thinks of the UN and those there who took his money and favors, a list well beyond John Ashe and Francis Lorenzo. Periscope video here. He did not answer, understandable. He will be back in court on August 7 for arguments on if his house arrest can continue. Before Ng left, Inner City Press witnessed his lawyers leaving. They told the judge they will appeal. But now that Ng is guilty, will the UN act on those exposed as corrupt, and reverse its censorship?
Ng Lap Seng's $3 billion UN convention center plan had been assisted by Meena Sur, still working for the UN Department of General Assembly and Conference Management. Inner City Press asked the UN spokesman Farhan Haq, who dodged by saying the UN was waiting for the verdict. But the UN is not on trial, because it has and cited immunity.
Likewise, high UN official Navid Hanif attended Ng Lap Seng's murky event in Macau in August 2015, and remains at at the UN. Spokesman Haq refused to answer about him, while telling Inner City Press that lower UN staff member Frances Fuller “separated from service” in September 2016, just after Inner City Press asked abo
To: Mr. Miguel de Serpa Soares, Date: 28 July 2017
Under-Secretary-General Office of Legal Affairs
Attn: Mr. Stephen Mathias
Assistant-Secretary-General Office of Legal Affairs
From: Felista Ondari
Chief Mission Support Office of the UN Special Coordinator for Middle East Peace Process
Subject: Request for Legal Advice on OIOS recommendations on possible misconduct
of staff member at the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
1. Reference is made to the attached inter-office memorandum from the Investigations
Division of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) to the Department of Field Support (DFS), dated 14 June 2017, transmitting the OIOS investigation report of the possible misconduct implicating United Nations personnel assigned at the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) mission in Jerusalem, Israel.
2. On behalf of the UNSCO Head of Mission Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, I am hereby
seeking the good services of your office to provide the HoM with advise as to whether the findings of the investigation should be referred to the national authorities of Israel and Jordan for consideration and action, in line with OIOS Recommendation 2.
3. Thank you and best regards.
UNSCO, P.O. Box 490, Government House, 91004 Jerusalem, Office Tel +972 2 5687272, Fax +972 2 568 7273. Email: UNSCO@un.org