A United Nations official in a department that promotes “ethics, transparency and accountability” falsified his permanent address to illegally obtain what could amount to tens of thousands of dollars in family allowance and housing funds that normally go to poor and moderate-income citizens in his native France, according to investigators there.
The fraud findings against Bruno Bastet, 40, are contained in an investigation report issued on May 20 by France’s Caisse d’Allocations Familiales (CAF), a branch of the French social security system that calls itself “one of the pivots of the French ‘social model’” — in other words, a centerpiece of the French welfare state.
The fraud involves Bastet’s listing himself, his then common-law wife and two children as residents of a city-owned housing complex in Paris designated for those in need of social assistance. Bastet, a program officer in the U.N. Department of Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM), has actually lived in New York City since 2004, while his former companion told FOX News she and the children have lived in the Dominican Republic since 2005.
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