07 Oct 2015

Former UN General Assembly president arrested for corruption

NEW YORK: A former president of the UN General Assembly, John Ashe, was arrested on Tuesday (Oct 6) and charged with taking US$1.3 million in bribes from Chinese businessmen in a corruption scandal that stunned the world body.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was "shocked and deeply troubled" by the charges, which were unprecedented in the UN's 70-year history.

Ashe, who served as assembly president for a year from September 2013, allegedly took bribes in exchange for backing a proposed UN conference centre in Macau promoted by a wealthy Chinese developer Ng Lap Seng.

"Among other things, Ashe accepted over US$500,000" from Ng who was "seeking to build a multi-billion dollar, UN-sponsored conference centre in Macau," the complaint said.

New York police arrested the 61-year-old former UN ambassador for Antigua and Barbuda at his home in Dobbs Ferry outside New York and three others were detained in New York early Tuesday.

US Attorney Preet Bharara said Ashe was using the United Nations as a "platform for profit", pushing for the Macau project and advancing Chinese interests in his Caribbean home country.
In exchange for payments, Ashe submitted a written request to Ban "which claimed that there was a purported need to build the UN Macau Conference Centre," the complaint said.

Ng and others used the March 2012 letter from Ashe to promote the conference centre which was to house a "Global Business Incubator" to foster South-South cooperation in the private sector.

Ashe, who holds Antiguan citizenship and is a US resident, served as ambassador when he wrote the letter, a position he held until November 2014.

Francis Lorenzo, a UN deputy ambassador from the Dominican Republic, was also jailed along with Shiwei Yan and Heidi Hong Piao on multiple bribery-related counts.

Last month, Ng was arrested in New York along with associate Jeff Yin for smuggling more than US$4.5 million in cash into the United States over a two-year period.

The six are accused of using a fake non-government organisation to carry out the bribery scheme. Lorenzo, the NGO's honorary president, was paid a US$20,000 salary.

Rolexes, tailored suits:

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/former-un-general/2174474.html

"If proven, today's charges will confirm that the cancer of corruption that plagues too many local and state governments infects the United Nations as well," Bharara told a news conference.

"If proven, today's charges will confirm that the cancer of corruption that plagues too many local and state governments infects the United Nations as well," Bharara told a news conference.

Ach the UN again.
So 6 out & 6 new ones will be needed & brought in for the NWO & renaming & overall the UN.
For a new world council.
Maybe those guys weren't buying the 'environment/ climate' agenda or the Pope's new world religion.. So they busted them.
* yea he had said all that & other crazy sh@t like we don't need air conditioning*

So...
What makes this day any different, than any other day at the U.N.?

Was, is, and always will be corruption, on all levels of the U.N..

UNinvolved in ethical behaviour.

pffft....