An internal U.N. investigation has sharply criticized the head of the organization's "good governance" division, finding he has diverted funds donated by the Greek government to improperly pay contractors and mismanaged a $2.8 million trust fund meant to foster transparency and accountability. The report by the Procurement Task Force of the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) suggests that Guido Bertucci, director of the U.N. Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM), personally reimburse the trust fund for misused funds and be reprimanded for favoritism and other violations in hiring consultants.
Legal opinions of the Secretariat of the United Nations Privileges and immunities (a) Note to the Assistant Secretary-General for Central Support Services, regarding request for a conference call with the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (b) Interoffice memorandum to the Director, Legal Support Office, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), regarding privileges and immunities issues related to “Delivery as One” and United Nations Volunteers Procedural and institutional issues (a) Note to the Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services regarding oversight authority over the United Nations Staff Union (b) Note regarding the borrowing authority of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (c) Note to the Under-Secretary-...
Legal opinions of the Secretariat of the United Nations (issued or prepared by the Office of Legal Affairs) Privileges and Immunities Licensing fees levied against the United Nations for the allocation of radio frequencies—Sections 7 and 34 of the convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations (9 January 1995) 399 Entitlement to diplomatic privileges and immunities of a member of a permanent mission who does not have the nationality of the sending or receiving State— Articles 7 and 8 of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (11 January 1995) 401 Question of who can determine whether the acts of United Nations officials are performed in their official capacity—Section 20 of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Natio...
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A scathing swan song from the United Nations' top watchdog hardly exposes anything new about absent accountability at Turtle Bay. Far more revealing is the U.N.'s official response to this critique. Undersecretary-General Inga-Britt Ahlenius of Sweden, ending her five-year term as chief of the U.N.'s Office of Internal Oversight Services, deserves credit for going out not with platitudes but with a candid assessment of the U.N.'s shipwrecked Secretariat division.
NEW YORK Internal U.N. audits sent to the director of the Iraq oil-for-food program uncovered extensive mismanagement of multimillion-dollar deals with contractors and fraudulent paperwork by its employees, according to some reports obtained by The Associated Press. More than 50 audits, which were carried out from 1996 to 2003 by the U.N. watchdog, the Office of Internal Oversight Services, have been a source of contention between the United Nations and members of Congress examining allegations of corruption in the program.
Legal opinions of the Secretariat of the United Nations Privileges and immunities (a) Note to the Secretary-General regarding the Staff Council resolution 42/24 proposing to hire Counsel and explore the possibility of bringing a legal action in the United States of America Federal Courts (b) Interoffice memorandum to the Officer in Charge, Policy Support Unit, Human Resources Policy Service, Division for Organizational Development, Office of Human Resources Management (OHRM) regarding liability for income tax in the United States (US) for United Nations staff members with permanent residence in the US (c) Note verbale to the Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations, regarding the arrest of a member of one delegation to a meeting of the Committee on the Peacefu...
... the Organization should report to the Internal Revenue Service the United Nations earnings of [Na... Section, Office of Central Support Services, regarding media travelling with the Secretary-Gen... for Human Rights, regarding the oversight role of the Human Rights Council over the work of ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Internal U.N. audits sent to the director of the Iraq oil-for-food program uncovered extensive mismanagement of multimillion-dollar deals with contractors and fraudulent paperwork by its employees, according to copies of the some of the reports obtained by The Associated Press. More than 50 audits, which were carried out from 1996 to 2003 by the U.N. watchdog, the Office of Internal Oversight Services, have been a source of contention between the United Nations and members of Congress examining allegations of corruption in the humanitarian program.
An unusually high number of vacancies in the U.N. inspector general's office has left that body significantly understaffed, raising concerns about the world body's ability to detect fraud and other abuses even as the workload has swelled to include a myriad of procurement contracts. According to an internal audit made available to The Washington Times, about 80 jobs - 25 percent of the staff in the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) - have not been filled. The vacancies include several senior investigative posts.
A top U.N. procurement officer who provided key evidence in the oil-for-food scandal has resigned amid charges he helped his son get a job with a firm that did business with the world body, U.N. officials said yesterday. Alexander Yakovlev quit abruptly Tuesday night after the United Nations' Office of Internal Oversight Services opened a formal investigation into reports the 52-year-old Russian citizen had urged New York-based IHC Services to hire his son Dmitry.
Those of us who strongly support the United Nations, and those who don't, find ourselves today in rare agreement: After more than 60 years of business as usual, the U.N. needs to overhaul and modernize its management structure. The oil-for-food scandal, sexual abuses by U.N. peacekeepers, the travesty of awarding seats on the Human Rights Commission to notorious human-rights abusers, the widespread procurement fraud that was just brought to light by the U.N.'s own investigative Office of Internal Oversight Services - these are just the most obvious signs the U.N. has lost its way. Worse, they so damage the U.N.'s credibility people lose sight of its triumphs, from tsunami relief to SARS/avian flu efforts to the World Food Program's fight against hunger.
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