Indrani Bagchi
TNN | Oct 23, 2015
NEW
DELHI: The arrest of former president of the UN General Assembly, John
Ashe, on charges of bribery by the Chinese has vindicated India's
suspicion that key top level officials in the UN system were being paid
off to delay or scuttle the Security Council reform process, among other
things.
Earlier this month, Ashe, former envoy from Antigua
& Barbuda was charged by US attorney Preet Bharara for accepting a
bribe of $1.3 million from Chinese businessmen and officials for support
for a multi-billion dollar "south south" UN-sponsored conference centre
in casino capital Macau. Bharara's complaint also stated that other
Chinese nationals paid Ashe hundreds of thousands of dollars to
facilitate their businesses in Antigua. While only some of the details
of the bribery processes have been made public, they are enough to
provide a clue to the methods China uses to influence UN processes.
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