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    Ng's Dominica Passport Echoed by Italy & Interpol, Fax to Qatar, Neo-Nazi in Ireland By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive UNITED NATIONS, October 30 -- At his bail hearing on charges of paying bribes at the UN, through President of the General Assembly John Ashe, Dominican Republic Deputy Permanent Representative Frank Lorenzo and others, Macau businessman Ng Lap Seng was said to have five (5) passports. That is a lot of passports for a single individual, but four of them made near immediate sense: China, Portugal (Macao was a former Portuguese colony), Lorenzo's Dominican Republic and Ashe's Antigua and Barbuda. But what about the fifth one, Dominica? This is part of a wider story. Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit was photographed at Ng's and UNDP's “South South” conference in Macau in late August 2015, ostensibly signing an agreement including Ng and UNDP's Teresa Liu for “Technology Transfer" center in Dominica. Earlier, Skerrit reportedly negotiated with Ng about investing in a hotel and even casino project and had other financial dealings. As Inner City Press reported earlier this week, Dominica under Skerrit has a history of giving out diplomatic passports and positions to non-nationals; the first example Inner City Press gave was one Paulo Zampolli. Inner City Press reported on his real estate and modeling businesses in New York; he is still listed in the UN's Blue Book at Dominica's (lone) Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN. Inner City Press asked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's spokesman Stephane Dujarric what scrutiny the UN gives before accrediting non-nationals as a country's Permanent or Deputy Permanent Representative. Dujarric replied that it entirely up to member states, similar to his responses on Ban's Secretariat's responsibility for changing documents for Ng, and accepting funds and invitations and giving photo ops, including through the UN Correspondents Association, to Ng and Sheri Yan, also indicted. But there are more, not without controversy - and while the UN gives a blind eye, some others don't. Under Skerrit, Dominica tried to name as its ambassador to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization one Francesco “Corallo, a gaming magnate on Interpol’s most wanted list on suspicion of “organized crime, transnational crime and fraud.” (It seems the publications of UNCA's president, who gave Ng the photo op with Ban Ki-moon, have not reported on this assignment to a UN agency.) Then there was the neo-Nazi. In 2004 Dominica's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Marketing wrote to Ireland, requesting “agrément” for the appointment of one Serge Roger De Thibault De Boesinghe as Dominica's Ambassador to Ireland. UNcovered: “It turns out that in the 70s, De Boesinghe became a member of an international neo-Nazi organization, the new European order, and was active in the Belgian branch of the movement. De Boesinghe was also a close friend and confidant of Leone Degrelle the former head of the Walloon Division of Hitler’s dreaded Waffen SS, which were front-line troops in the fight against the Soviet Union.” According to the same account in or around 2006, “the United Arab Emirates also refused a request to have Dominica open a consulate in that country.” Inner City Press has obtained, and is today publishing a fax to Qatar's Mohammed Abdullah Mutib Al Rumaihi at Qatar's Mission to the UN in New York, wit the support of Roosevelt Skerrit, from a Dominica official name Timothy Cornwall. We'll have more on this.

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    Ng's Dominica Passport Echoed by Italy & Interpol, Fax to Qatar, Neo-Nazi in Ireland By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive UNITED NATIONS, October 30 -- At his bail hearing on charges of paying bribes at the UN, through President of the General Assembly John Ashe, Dominican Republic Deputy Permanent Representative Frank Lorenzo and others, Macau businessman Ng Lap Seng was said to have five (5) passports. That is a lot of passports for a single individual, but four of them made near immediate sense: China, Portugal (Macao was a former Portuguese colony), Lorenzo's Dominican Republic and Ashe's Antigua and Barbuda. But what about the fifth one, Dominica? This is part of a wider story. Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit was photographed at Ng's and UNDP's “South South” conference in Macau in late August 2015, ostensibly signing an agreement including Ng and UNDP's Teresa Liu for “Technology Transfer" center in Dominica. Earlier, Skerrit reportedly negotiated with Ng about investing in a hotel and even casino project and had other financial dealings. As Inner City Press reported earlier this week, Dominica under Skerrit has a history of giving out diplomatic passports and positions to non-nationals; the first example Inner City Press gave was one Paulo Zampolli. Inner City Press reported on his real estate and modeling businesses in New York; he is still listed in the UN's Blue Book at Dominica's (lone) Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN. Inner City Press asked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's spokesman Stephane Dujarric what scrutiny the UN gives before accrediting non-nationals as a country's Permanent or Deputy Permanent Representative. Dujarric replied that it entirely up to member states, similar to his responses on Ban's Secretariat's responsibility for changing documents for Ng, and accepting funds and invitations and giving photo ops, including through the UN Correspondents Association, to Ng and Sheri Yan, also indicted. But there are more, not without controversy - and while the UN gives a blind eye, some others don't. Under Skerrit, Dominica tried to name as its ambassador to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization one Francesco “Corallo, a gaming magnate on Interpol’s most wanted list on suspicion of “organized crime, transnational crime and fraud.” (It seems the publications of UNCA's president, who gave Ng the photo op with Ban Ki-moon, have not reported on this assignment to a UN agency.) Then there was the neo-Nazi. In 2004 Dominica's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Marketing wrote to Ireland, requesting “agrément” for the appointment of one Serge Roger De Thibault De Boesinghe as Dominica's Ambassador to Ireland. UNcovered: “It turns out that in the 70s, De Boesinghe became a member of an international neo-Nazi organization, the new European order, and was active in the Belgian branch of the movement. De Boesinghe was also a close friend and confidant of Leone Degrelle the former head of the Walloon Division of Hitler’s dreaded Waffen SS, which were front-line troops in the fight against the Soviet Union.” According to the same account in or around 2006, “the United Arab Emirates also refused a request to have Dominica open a consulate in that country.” Inner City Press has obtained, and is today publishing a fax to Qatar's Mohammed Abdullah Mutib Al Rumaihi at Qatar's Mission to the UN in New York, wit the support of Roosevelt Skerrit, from a Dominica official name Timothy Cornwall. We'll have more on this.

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    Dominica Letter To Qatar Mission To The UN, Part of Inner City Press Investigation

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    Ng's Dominica Passport Echoed by Italy & Interpol, Fax to Qatar, Neo-Nazi in Ireland By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive UNITED NATIONS, October 30 -- At his bail hearing on charges of paying bribes at the UN, through President of the General Assembly John Ashe, Dominican Republic Deputy Permanent Representative Frank Lorenzo and others, Macau businessman Ng Lap Seng was said to have five (5) passports. That is a lot of passports for a single individual, but four of them made near immediate sense: China, Portugal (Macao was a former Portuguese colony), Lorenzo's Dominican Republic and Ashe's Antigua and Barbuda. But what about the fifth one, Dominica? This is part of a wider story. Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit was photographed at Ng's and UNDP's “South South” conference in Macau in late August 2015, ostensibly signing an agreement including Ng and UNDP's Teresa Liu for “Technology Transfer" center in Dominica. Earlier, Skerrit reportedly negotiated with Ng about investing in a hotel and even casino project and had other financial dealings. As Inner City Press reported earlier this week, Dominica under Skerrit has a history of giving out diplomatic passports and positions to non-nationals; the first example Inner City Press gave was one Paulo Zampolli. Inner City Press reported on his real estate and modeling businesses in New York; he is still listed in the UN's Blue Book at Dominica's (lone) Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN. Inner City Press asked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's spokesman Stephane Dujarric what scrutiny the UN gives before accrediting non-nationals as a country's Permanent or Deputy Permanent Representative. Dujarric replied that it entirely up to member states, similar to his responses on Ban's Secretariat's responsibility for changing documents for Ng, and accepting funds and invitations and giving photo ops, including through the UN Correspondents Association, to Ng and Sheri Yan, also indicted. But there are more, not without controversy - and while the UN gives a blind eye, some others don't. Under Skerrit, Dominica tried to name as its ambassador to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization one Francesco “Corallo, a gaming magnate on Interpol’s most wanted list on suspicion of “organized crime, transnational crime and fraud.” (It seems the publications of UNCA's president, who gave Ng the photo op with Ban Ki-moon, have not reported on this assignment to a UN agency.) Then there was the neo-Nazi. In 2004 Dominica's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Marketing wrote to Ireland, requesting “agrément” for the appointment of one Serge Roger De Thibault De Boesinghe as Dominica's Ambassador to Ireland. UNcovered: “It turns out that in the 70s, De Boesinghe became a member of an international neo-Nazi organization, the new European order, and was active in the Belgian branch of the movement. De Boesinghe was also a close friend and confidant of Leone Degrelle the former head of the Walloon Division of Hitler’s dreaded Waffen SS, which were front-line troops in the fight against the Soviet Union.” According to the same account in or around 2006, “the United Arab Emirates also refused a request to have Dominica open a consulate in that country.” Inner City Press has obtained, and is today publishing a fax to Qatar's Mohammed Abdullah Mutib Al Rumaihi at Qatar's Mission to the UN in New York, wit the support of Roosevelt Skerrit, from a Dominica official name Timothy Cornwall. We'll have more on this.

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