By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
UN GATE, Sept 28 – In the United Nations under Antonio Guterres, there is nothing but failure and excuses and fundraising on crises like Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, Burma, Haiti and Cameroon. The nearly over UNGA week, with sleeping Japanese journalists and Guterres lying about press freedom and UN equipment shows it.
There is impunity for sexual abuse by peacekeepers and UN staff like Juan Carlos Cunillera, just "along for the ride" during the UN sex-in-the-van exposed by Inner City Press.
But now as we again look at and ask about Guterres' omission of his links to UN briber CEFC China Energy, leading to him banning the Press (and Melissa Fleming continuing the ban, not even answering a law firm's pro bono letter), on April 17, 2022 we published on other officials - including long time UNOPS operative Vitaly Vanshelboim (whom Inner City Press covered in connection with UNOPS gag orders before being banned from UN by corrupt Guterres.)
We noted that Vanshelboim's skeeze in the S3i scam of UNOPS's Grete Faremo.
While others then noted for example that a long time member of the UN Correspondents Association Gloria Starr Kins played a role in hooking up the fraud, they don't mention UNCA and their role in banning the Press. On December 13, 2024, UNCA will put access to Guterres up for sale again at Cipriani: no questions have been answered.
Now this: In Spain the National Court will consider this Thursday whether to extradite Vanshelboim to SDNY in the US where, unlike Guterres UN which protected and helped him get away, he wanted for trial on alleged bribery, criminal association, and money laundering charges. Surprisingly perhaps, since Spain colludes with Guterres in banning Press, the Spanish Prosecutor's Office supports the extradition. It states that the alleged events occurred between September 2015 and August 2023 in his role as a director of the UN agency, adding that the requirements for granting the extradition request have been met. Vanshelboim allegedly received at least $2 million from a British businessman in exchange for diverting approximately $60 million in grants and loans to companies linked to the latter for the development of affordable housing, renewable energy, and healthcare infrastructure. Vanshelboim was arrested last March pursuant to an international arrest warrant issued by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for prosecution. AN Judge María Tardón ordered his provisional imprisonment due to the risk of flight, given the "considerable seriousness" of the incidents. From Guterres? Silence, no answers to Press, censorship and corruption. A fish rots from the head.
We'll have more on this.
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