Friday 28 August 2009

Loophole on UN rules allows US-Taxpayer's money to go for purchasing properties in Manhattan for UN bureaucrats

Following a FOXNEWS Reporting -- Many DESA staff are focused on how did Bruno Bastet (french diplomat) managed to pose as poor person back in France, while benefiting a hefty salary and many UN perks in New York, and whether Haiyan Qian or Catherine Pelluso or SHa Zukang knew about his deals long before the FOXNEWS Article.........
But Bastet is half of the story....or may we say quarter of it ? Than what is the other half of it?

The U.N. benefits loophole that allows Bastet to claim a rental subsidy in New York City even while he owns an apartment there is not something that the U.N. loudly broadcasts either.
According to a spokesman for U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, such subsidy payments are perfectly legal, provided employees are not living in the property they own. Under U.N. rules, employees can get subsidies for rental accommodation — paid for by U.N. contributors like the U.S.— even while they build a real estate portfolio in the same city where they rent a dwelling.
The only U.N. employees barred from receiving the rental subsidy are "staff who live in their own home or who do not pay rent for their dwellings," according to deputy U.N. spokeswoman Marie Okabe.
According to the U.N. Secretariat's proposed budget for 2010 and 2011, the U.N.'s human resource department expects that about 840 U.N. headquarters staff members will receive a rental subsidy.
Who are these 840 UN Headquarters staff who like Bastet received rental subsidies while owning a property in Manhattan or three boroughs ?

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