UN Volker Turk Collaborated in Banning Press now Seeks Swiss Funds to Keep Palais Staff Say

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, June 22 –  How corrupt and decrepit has the UN system become under Antonio Guterres, in this case due to Guterres? Today's example is again from the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights, to which Guterres appointed his unqualified crony Volker Turk more than two years ago.

From OHCHR staff: Dear Mr Lee Staff in OHCHR is tired of nepotism and management incompetence. Under Volker Turk OHCHR will lose Palais Wilson, it’s historic HQ, and many jobs but not because of Donald Trump as Turk claims. The truth is that OHCHR had a 60 million deficit already at the end of 2024. 60 million of wasted tax payers moneys. Since his appointment almost 3 years ago, Turk has thrown money around in useless iniciatives like UDHR75 or his innovation hub with no oversight nor accountability.  It is not Donald Trump it is management incompetence and nepotism, hiring friends, hiring spouses, hiring unqualified persons (Nada Al Nashif and Kim Taylor have a lot to answer).

There are so many examples, director Maarit Kohonen husband went from P1 and P4 in record time,  unqualified Matthias Behnke brags a sour his friendship with Turk to become a regional director, Kim Taylor lied about her PHP, lied to get whistleblower Emma Reilly fired and hired her boyfriend. More examples to follow. Now Turk wants to open a regional office in his home town Vienna as part of his exit strategy when there is already a regional office in Brussels.  Staff keeps getting sacrificed, relocated and fired while money is wasted. It is not Donald Trump, it is corruption.

And Switzerland now is announcing a rescue package for the UN in Geneva. Well, Switzerland should not put taxpayer moneys without full investigation into reports of nepotism and mismanagement in OHCHR. Help us Mr Lee to expose corruption."

Will try, have applied to re-enter.

Turk as a staffer on Guterres' 38th floor did nothing when his boss Guterres had the critical Press roughed up and thrown out. There has been no due process since, not even a response to Guterres' Melissa Fleming to a pro bono inquiry for Inner City Press from the law firm Quinn Emanuel. Some human righters.

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