Fraud Rampant in UN While Internal Investigations Come Up Short

Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism
June 28, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

The UN’s Internal Investigators are an aspect of the management structure that is called upon to investigate reports of fraud. Yes, the UN investigates its own fraud. How objective can they be?

The Many UN programs, funds and agencies are governed and investigated by the UN itself, and they seem to be more concerned with covering up any incidents of fraudulent activity rather than rooting it out.

The UN Joint Inspection Unit 2011 report (JIU) is a decades long effort by the UN to self-regulate. JUI inspectors are UN investigators that are supposed to enforce UN policies onto itself with UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon at the helm.

The JUI report evaluated 21 of the UN’s organizations, which is not an inclusive list. Wrapped up in UN bureaucracy and headed by the UN Secretariat , this report serves more on the side of covering up fraud for the sake of global governance than anything else.

The UN Environmental Program (UNEP) is financially supported by many governments; among them France. The UNEP has grown to become a super-agency that guides the UN Earth Summit on Sustainable Development in Rio, De Janeiro.

According to the UNEP, “It seems to us sensible and a saving of taxpayers’ money to draw on the capabilities of the UN Secretariat rather than having or setting up a separate system.”

The UN Secretariat’s Office for Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) asserts that the UNEP employs one auditor and one assistant to oversee the myriad of multilateral agreements that the UNEP are supposed to be governing.

The fake front was also designed for the UN Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) where the OIOS surmised that the one auditor for UN-Habitat over 11 years to audit the $250 million budget of the organization. This leaves plenty of room for fraudulent activity.

The UN, through offshore accounts, funnels money to the tune of $2.6 billion in a “procurement operation”.

Hamid Karzai, Afghan president, accused officials from the West and UN embassy representative of election fraud and offering bribes of cash and cars to the Afghani Independent Election Commission (IEC) to ensure the president’s placement in office.

In 2011, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) found that Jeffrey Armstrong, who served at the UN and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), has wired out more than $100,000 salary payments. These funds were supposed to be allocated to the UN international organizations for humanitarian and peace-keeping efforts, as well as the NLRB (an independent US government agency).

Considering that the UN regulates itself, it is hardly believable that the UN had no knowledge of this funding fraud.

In June of 2012, the UN Development Program removed the Afghanistan assistant director that was in charge of a $1.4 billion Afghan Law and Order Trust Fund to administrative leave pending an internal investigation of fraud where misappropriations of monies went missing. The money was provided by the US, European Union (EU) and Japan.

Money to fund the UN’s endeavors is pledged from individuals and governments. And the UN misappropriates those funds to off-shore accounts and launders them through employee actions. All the while, they claim to independently govern themselves through internal investigations and bureaucracy.

The money goes missing. No one is punished. And the UN keeps their reputation as a peace-keeping organization.

The fraud extends beyond the actions of the UN and right to the misleading the public about the purpose of the organization. That is the biggest fraud of all.

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