Saturday, April 4, 2026

In Corrupt UN of Guterres and de Croo UNDP Travel Slush Fund of Candotti Exposed by Staff



In Corrupt UN of Guterres and de Croo UNDP Travel Slush Fund of Candotti Exposed by Staff

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, March 30 –   How corrupt is today's UN system under Antonio Guterres and, at UNDP, Alexander de Croo? Today Inner City Press, banned from the UN by Guterres with none of its written questions answer by Spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming, follows up on the UNDP beat with this, sent to it yet another whistleblower:

It started last week with, Dear Matthew Russell Lee: At UNDP, the OHR Director is on annual leave until the end of April and will retire at the beginning of May 2026. The UNDP Chief of Staff, Michele Candotti, is also wrapping up and beginning his retirement, while still denying that 15 staff members inappropriately benefited from their expatriate status as internationally recruited staff.  We appealed to the UNDP Administrator, Alexander De Croo, to act on this long-standing corruption case. 

And now today, March 30, more detail from another angle, not disgruntled but angry (at what has happened in the UN) -

"Michele Candotti has also collected full travel entitlements since he “retired”… it is to the tune of $20k a month while he is on a $1 a year contract.  He is somehow justifying his continued existence (till this week perhaps) by telling many he’s bringing in money from governments including Italy, but never accepts the blame for all the donor funding that was lost during his corrupted tenure.  The excessive travel entitlements should be public record in Quantum and verifiable.  This man should not go into retirement without his legacy taking a deserved scrutinized evaluation of what was actually accomplished." We're trying....

  UNDP Administrator, Alexander De Croo - any answer? USUN PR Mike Waltz? MUNGA??  Watch this site.

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