After almost two years on the job, Kemal Dervis's "house of secrets" has started to leak, and leak badly. And the problem seem to be Kemal himself, with his desire to run the organization (if he could) with no fax-es, no cell phones, no emails or email - servers, no notes, no records and no interviews.
But let's review what happen during 2007 with this House of High Priests.
January 2007:
The United States Mission at the UN, demarched on UNDP in early January 2007, demanding answers on their activities in UNDP Pyongyang, Kemal Dervis and Ad Melkert immediately responded in downplaying and denying all allegations stating that: - "the world would see that UNDP does not operate in Pyongyang in CASH or in Hard currency, and UNDP had no counterfeit in their possession".
January 19:
Secretary General Ban KI Moon calls for a UNDP wide investigation and promises a final report in 90 days.
March 2007:
Barely two months later, Kemal Dervis was unable to continue to lie and he and his deputy were obliged to go themselves at the offices of United States Secret Service to deliver the US$ counterfeit notes that were in UNDP Pyongyang safe. Still when Secret Service demand to question a list of UNDP staffers, UN denies to waive their immunities and Secret Service Investigation is discontinued.
The same March, Kemal Dervis would announce (06 Mar 2007) that the UNDP is closing down the offices in Pyongyang because the North Korean government denied further cooperation and to follow UNDP's rules and regulations, as well as demanded continuation of hard currency payments.
April 2007 :
Despite the fact that the investigation of Board of Auditors was continuing, UNDP dispose all assets in Pyongyang giving it all to Kim Jong Il regime, as well as all project related documentations. In April 24th UNDP also dispose the email and data servers of UNDP Pyongyang. When asked "why" - UNDP responded that they had already downloaded all data and sent those to Board of Auditors. But Board of Auditors in their report claim they never received any data from UNDP.
May 2007 :
Board of Auditors declare that UNDP had in fact violated its own rules and regulations, and that UNDP had not provided any files nor evidences, nor access to North Korean offices to the auditors.
June 2007 :
Ethics office takes over a case of retaliation from a UNDP staff, and declares the staff whistleblower and that UNDP had in fact retaliated against.
August 2007 :
UNDP in cooperation with Ban Ki Moon declare the Ethics Office decision - non valid and demand to have its own external investigation, declaring though independence from the United Nations.
September 2007 :
Despite public and internal discontent, Kemal Dervis appoints the new "independent panel" and pre-judge its conclusions on its very first day. Meanwhile UNDP Management initiate (once again) the disposal of all UNDP Headquarters servers. Despite the UNDP and UN rules which states that no files or servers shall be disposed before 8 years, and independent inspection from Auditors to ensure that servers memories are properly stored in UN.
**No one understands why UNDP when in middle of Audits find the need to dispose of servers (email & data)
November 2007 :
UNDP hires Identyx.com to start an ID clean-up of all UNDP HQs and systems in order to ensure that no mapping of who-did-what during the years is ever traced.
Also in November FoxNews published an article on Syria and how UNDP have provided sensitive technology, circumventing US commercial laws and embargoes. Now the Congress and Senate are opening another investigation, this time to find out who inside the State Department and Commerce Department is helping the High Priests.
Thanks to tens of UNDP staffers from around the globe, UNDP Watch is now going to focus on substantial evidences of wrongdoing across the organization and bring that to the public. Would be up to Ban Ki Moon to follow it thru or not.
UNDP Pyongyang (red) and WFP Pyongyang(Yellow
UNDP Beijing (Red) and Maurice Strong Office/Home (Yellow)
The File list of Box 20 out of 59
Cell-pics of the Boxes and contents located in second floor of the UNDP Beijing
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