| On UN
Corruption
UNDT Takes
Month on Press
Request Then
Response that
Cannot be
Opened
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack UN GATE,
Oct 13 – UN official Vitaly
Vanshelboim, whose unsealed
Federal court indictment Inner
City Press exclusively report,
has benefited from UN
cover-ups under outgoing
Sec-Gen Antonio Guterres. His
spokespeople Stephane Dujarric
and Farhan Haq have refused to
answer Press questions; now
his UNDT has taken a full
month to respond to a request,
and only with a response that
cannot be opened. A simply request
to sent the response by email
has not been responded to. It
is a faux response, by a UN
system engaged in Press
censorship. The US
Mission to the UN, which talks
loudly of "thinning down the
UN" is no help - they have
delayed now months a US FOIA
request about Ambassador Mike
Waltz spending.
Submitted on the
morning of October 5, 2026 to
UN spokespeople, Farhan Haq,
Stephane Dujarric, Antonio
Guterres, Amina J. Mohammed,
Melissa Fleming, et al: Oct 5-1: On UN corruption and cover-ups, what are the comments and action if any of SG Guterres, and separately USUN / PR Waltz and Greek PR, on the now unsealed indictment against Vitaly Vanshelboim of UNOPS, first reported by Inner City Press? Oct
5-1a: On alleged rapes by UN diplomats what
are the comments and actions if any of SG
Guterres, and
separately USUN / PR Waltz and Greek PR, on
the case against Paolo Zampolli, previously
DPR of Dominica and congratulating SG Guterres
and the 2026 UNGA week you banned Inner City
Press from? See, e.g, Oct 5, 2026,
Daily Beast, "Model Agent Who Claims He
Introduced Trump to Melania Is Accused of
Rape," byTom Latchem, "The complaint, first
reported on by Inner City Press, alleges she
reported the incident to the NYPD," https://www.thedailybeast.com/ Oct 5-c:
Please immediately provide the reasoning for
MALU's Sept 29 denial of my July 25, 2026
application https://www. ----------
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From: malu@un.org (via Indico.UN) <dgacm-noreply-indico@un.org> Date: Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 1:17 PM Subject: [Indico] United Nations media accreditation declined To: <matthew.lee@innercitypress. Dear Matthew Lee, We regret to inform you that your media accreditation request has not been approved. Follow what is happening at the UN with these resources: http://www.un.org/en/media/ With kind regards, Media Accreditation and Liaison
Unit (MALU) Oct 5-1d - Again, will the Greek Mission (cc-ed here) confirm or deny what Greek media Ekathimerini is reporting, that Feridun Sinirlioglu is campaigning for SG? Any comment from SG Guterres, given the posts he gave Sinirlioglu After
the briefing,
open to
a UN
Correspondent
who did a
fundraiser
with Ghislaine
Maxwell,
devoted to softball
questions
about FAO and
plague
in Russia
nothing - not
even an
acknowledgment
of
receipt. Days
previous: What
inquiry if any
did the UN do
after the
conviction of
Ghislaine
Maxwell for
sex
trafficking,
and Amir
Dossal's
service as 1
of 5 people on
her Terramar
Foundation's
board? On what
basis does Mr.
Dossal (unlike
Inner City
Press which
reports on sex
trafficking
and the UN)
have access to
the UN, for
example
yesterday at
Ivonne
A-Baki's
stakeout? What
was his role
there, and in
her team? What
type of UN
entrance pass
does Mr.
Dossal have? Inner City Press will continue to ask these questions daily, and to report the silence when that is the answer. Watch this site.
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