By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC - Honduras - CIA Trial Book - NY Mag
SDNY / UN GATE, Dec 1 – Chinese businessman and fraudster Cary Yan was the subject of a Federal indictment unsealed on September 2, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Using a UN-affiliated non-governmental organization, Yan paid bribes in New York to officers of the Marshall Islands and others. Indictment on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud here.
In 2018, Inner City Press from inside the UN reported on Cary Yan's suspicious activities, (including video here, and bribe-bought promotion by UNCA here) as it was reporting on the parallel UN bribery by Patrick Ho of Ye Jianming's NGO CEFC China Energy.
On December 1, 2022, Yan and his co-defendant pled guilty. Inner City Press was there - thread:
OK - Cary Yan is here is orange WCDOC prison garb, signing a lot if papers. Sure looks like a guilty plea.
While waiting for Judge Buchwald, it's worth noting she recently sentenced UN rapist Elkorany. Today's UN is irredeemably corrupt.
Proceeding still hasn't started because Yan's lawyer and his co-defendant's lawyer are whispering and gesticulating.
All rise!
Judge: One of the defendant was in the COVID quarantine wing. Was there a positive test? A: Not since in the US. Judge: This will be a guilty plea.
Yan: I am 52. Yan: I plead guilty. Judge: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act conspiracy count has a maximum of 5 years. (Counts 2-5 are being dropped for the plea deal).
AUSA: The defendant operated corruptly, offering payments to a foreign official [which happens every day in the UN of Antonio Guterres , and on Dec 9, a few miles south, near to SDNY here
Cary Yan: I am a citizen of the Marshall Islands [! He says with 2 US Marshals behind him. Note: Even UN briber Ng Lap Seng didn't cite his various Caribbean passports.
Now Q&A turns to the plea agreement that was being signed. Yan is reading his allocution to the crime in Chinese. Of course, he bought Marshall Islands citizenship.
Yan: I headed an NGO. I agreed to bribe Marshalese officials, including in the USA... Manhattan. [United Nations -outrageous claims there, in ECOSOC chamber]
The plea agreement for Cary Yan has a stipulated guideline sentence of 57 to 60 months.
[Plea agreement on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud here]
Guilty plea is accepted by the judge. Sentencing set for late Feb but could be earlier since parents' visa running out.
[Update: after Inner City Press' initial report, Yan retained Jonathan Bolz, who also represented Patrick Ho. Word is Yan was extradited in from Thailand and will be presented before the assigned District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, who also presided over sentencing to 15 years of UN rapist Karim Elkorany]
Soon thereafter, Inner City Press was thrown out of the UN by Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who omitted from his financial disclosures his link to CEFC.
On September 2, 2022, after finding the just-unsealed Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) indictment of Yan and Gina Zhou in the docket at the SDNY court which it now covers, still banned from the UN, Inner City Press emailed Guterres, his spokespeople Stephane Dujarric, Eri Kaneko and Melissa Fleming questions about the UN's role in the bribery by the NGOs, including the United Nations International Organization for Sustainable Development and the World Organization of Governance and Competitiveness, WOGC. No answer.
On November 10, Yan's lawyer asked to delay the November 15 conference to December 1 "to provide the parties additional time to discuss a potential resolution of the matter." A plea? Watch this site.
Inner City Press resurfaces:
A whistleblower forwarded this to Inner City Press: "UNCA is extending an invitation from the Permanent Mission of Zambia to the UN and the World Organization of Governance and Competitiveness to a High-level Global Meeting discussing 'Road to the Future of Sustainable Development: Moving from Commitments to Results through Inclusive Innovation,' taking place on Friday, August 25th from 1:30 - 6:00 pm in ECOSOC chamber. Sherwin Bryce-Pease, President, United Nations Correspondents Association." The promotion: "H.E Mr. Lazarous Kapambwe, Permanent Representative of Zambia to the United Nations, Mr. Cary Yan, President of WOGC, Special Guests include: H.E. Mme Marie Chatardová, President of the Economic and Social Council (tbc), H.E. Mr. António Guterres, United Nations Secretary General (tbc), H.E. Mme Lorena Herrera, Vice President of Honduras, H.E. Mr. Alvaro Colom, Former President of Guatemala, H.E. Mr. Kessai H. Note, Former President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, H.E. Mr. Francisco Merino, Former Vice President of El Salvador, Hon. Mr. Freidi Torres, Former President of Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Panama." The press release said Antonio Guterres would speak.
Then Guterres had Inner City Press thrown out of the UN, and his UNCA did nothing (here).
So far, no response - complicity and corruption.
The case is US v. Yan, 20-cr-402 (Buchwald)
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