8 June 2022 – Mukesh Kapila My previous article described the UNOPS Executive Board briefing on 16th May. It also referenced strong criticisms made by many Member-States who have belatedly recognised the mismanagement, misconduct, and potential fraud at UNOPS. Finland was particularly outraged because it was conned into hosting the office of S3i – theContinue reading “UNOPS must stop lying and remove all its fraud-enabling Senior Leadership Team”
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“History does not stop because we messed up”
Come what may, sooner or later, UNOPS will find that history has to be squared. It cant be brushed under the carpet.
What the UNOPS scandal teaches about multilateral vulnerabilities and reforms
25 May 2022 – Mukesh Kapila I have found over past weeks that professional circles familiar with the multilateral United Nations system tend to see or excuse its transgressions in nuanced terms. It is as if the complexity of the contexts in which the UN functions confuses their moral direction-finder. Perhaps a weary cynicism andContinue reading “What the UNOPS scandal teaches about multilateral vulnerabilities and reforms”
How UNOPS executed an internal coup and installed a junta
How do you subvert an organisation from inside, surely and systematically, and turn it into an instrument of your supreme will? UNOPS provides a salutary example.
Journey into the heart of a scandal: how UNOPS cheated donors, exploited the poor, and lost millions
I used a trip to India to see for myself how UNOPS’s social impact investing initiative for affordable housing via its partner SHS was doing. It wasn’t doing anything. The where did the money go?
UNOPS Chief Grete Faremo leaves in disgrace
The Executive Director of UNOPS, Grete Faremo is thrown out of office in disgrace.
Acting for accountability and correction at the top of UNOPS
Slowly but steadily, the impunity enjoyed by the leadership of the corruption-mired United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is getting stripped away.
Mismanagement, fraud, and corruption at UNOPS: the Executive Board must act now
This is a call for urgent action by the Executive Board of UNOPS to tackle mismanagement, fraud, and corruption at this Unites Nations system agency
Fooling your own people at UNOPS won’t work 
This is the fifth in a series of recent articles on fraud, corruption, and mismanagement at the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), that is potentially implicating its top leadership.
“We have screwed up really bad”, admits UNOPS Director
A senior director and member of the UNOPS Senior Leadership Team finally admits to fraud and corruption in the UN agency, led by Grete Faremo. We look into the roles of other senior leaders who aided and abetted this massive heist, in this fourth article under this series
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