OIOS damning report on DPADM/Bertucci scandal

for over four years, investigators of OIOS have pored over questions of mismanagement and corruption at the Division of Public Administration and Development Management of UN-DESA. The latest reports of OIOS, revealed this week to the General Assembly, produced their firmest - and most painful - conclusions to date. 

Procurement Task Force, a specialized arm of OIOS has found that Guido Bertucci (Italian National), Director of DPADM since 1997, "corruptly benefited" from projects while he was in charge. Another UN-DESA official, the Head of Executive Office, Catherine Peluso (Italian-American) is accused of contract and procurement mismanagement together with the Head of DESA's Technical Cooperation Division Furio De Tomassi (Italian National). The investigator found 100 of contracts missing and files related to those destroyed.

A harsh light began to shine on Guido Bertucci after his name appeared on documents in the Greek Parliaments, and when Greek Parliamentarians and Minister of Interior fingerpointed him for mismanaging the Greek Trust Fund and a project called Thessaloniki Center. Under the programme he ran, seem that Guido Bertucci, intentionally undermined the thessaloniki Center to swing contracts for his friends and ensure that Greeks would not achieve any tangible results, leaving this way another DESA center in Naples/Italy the right to "succeed" in Balkans and Mediterranean.

The investigation is going on and seem that among those alleged to have been bribed from Guido Bertucci are several european, latin american and central african politicians...