Bruno Bastet "escorted out of DC2 by UN Police/DSS"

The story about UN's Department of Economical and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) staff - Mr. Bruno Bastet (a French national) was brought up during the noon briefing of the Spokesperson of UN's Secretary-General Bank Ki Moon today (May 04, 2010).

This is the dialogue (as per UN transcript) :

Question: And finally, you sent me an answer about this Mr.
[Bruno] Bastet who was a UN employee who was accused of using French subsidy for the poor while being a UN employee. But he was, as you said, removed from DC-2 by the Department of Safety and Security of the UN, is that common? When somebody’s contract runs out, why do they have to be escorted from the premises by security? Can you explain why this took place?

Spokesperson: No, I cannot give you any more details than what I have, what we have already sent to you, which is that he was escorted, I think that is the key word, he was escorted out of one of the UN buildings — for those in the know, DC-2 — last week, and that was following the
termination of his contract. But, as you also know from what I told you and as we have also told others who are aware of this case, that this was without incident. As to further details about this, I would ask you to contact the Office of Human Resources Management.

So after the Secretary-General have ... so to speak... "SPOKEN", the ball is back with UN-DESA and more specifically with its Office of Human Resources.

The SG's Spokesperson, (Martin Nesirky - formerly Reuters guy in Moscow, Berlin, The Hague and Seoul), tries to confond the public by saying that "following the termination of his contract - was escorted by UN Police out of building"... :) Ha Ha Ha Ha... as if every UN Staff "who's contract comes to an end - is actually escorted out of the building by the DSS police". Give us a break Martin !

All the above dancing and singing still leaves many (including UN-DESA staffers) with unanswered questions.

• DESA management knew since at least early 2009 about Bruno Bastet's "deals", why neither Haiyan Qian (Director of DPADM) nor John Mary Kauzya (Chief of Branch) didn't enforce the rules but even extended this individual and promoted him?
• Why DESA's Management, namely Sha Zukang, who repeatedly has called for "NO MORE SCANDALS", doesn't do nothing to shake the level of impunity, missmanagement and corruption inside the UN's Economical and Social Department (UN-DESA)?
• Why DESA's management does not share even a reducted version of OIOS latest investigation with the staff? What is there to fear about?
• Even now when OIOS and UN's Secretary General seem to have taken strong action, still UN-DESA's management is failing to come clean and tell DESA's staff the truth about what happened, how it happened and what should all staff be aware and learn from this case;

It takes one email Mr. Sha - just one email to level yourself with your own staff and win back confidence, which now (after two years with you at helm) is at its lowest ever.