Four United Nations staff members were sacked for sending and storing child porn on U.N. computers, it has emerged.
The incident was disclosed in a report on U.N. disciplinary matters
and cases of criminal behaviour covering a year-long period up to June
2015.
It documents about 60 cases that resulted in disciplinary measures among the U.N.’s global staff of 40,000.
Other cases included a staff member who was sacked for using a U.N. vehicle to transport 173 kilograms of marijuana.
The report does not identify any of the staffers or where they
worked, nor does it include the over 100,000 U.N. peacekeepers, who are
under the jurisdiction of their home countries.
It states that during the year-long period eight cases involving
"credible allegations of criminal conduct by United Nations officials or
experts on mission were referred to member states." It provided no
further information and didn't say whether any of the unidentified
countries sought to prosecute the individuals.
The disciplinary cases range from a senior staff member's demotion
for harassing a subordinate to dismissal of a staffer caught trying to
steal money from the wallet of another staffer, and termination of the
contract of a staffer performing security and screening duties at an
airport who took $2,200 from the luggage of a passenger traveling on a
U.N. flight.
The report gave no details on the four staffers sending child
pornography. It said a fifth staffer was demoted for storing
pornographic material on a computer and failing to report that another
U.N. staffer had sent it though the U.N.'s email system
Culled from Evening Standard
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