Another UN Scandal… Visas-For-Sale Scheme

Michelle talked about it briefly last week, but has much more about a corruptocrat at the U.N.

U.S. authorities arrested a U.N. translator on suspicion of visa fraud on Monday, accusing him of using U.N. letterhead to bring foreigners into the United States for non-existent conferences.

Vyacheslav Manokhin, a Russian translator of documents at the New York headquarters, was arrested on Monday along with Vladimir Derevianko, who is accused of scheming with Manokhin to prepare false documents submitted to U.S. immigration officials, federal prosecutors said.

A third man, Kamiljan Tursunov, is accused of paying $15,000 for a fraudulent visa. He also faces conspiracy and fraud charges, the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan said in a statement.

Tursunov already had been in custody for failing to appear at an immigration proceeding.

Manokhin used his position at the United Nations to make it appear as though the world body supported visa applications for certain foreigners so they could attend U.N. meetings in New York. But the meetings either did not exist or those invited had no intention attending, the statement said.

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26 Comments.

  1. Naive No More | Adam's Blog - pingback on 8/6/2007 at August 6, 2007 - 10:49 PM
  2. U.N., Means third world rulers doing busiess but in this case it’s a spy system doing busiess, in the last 5 years the boys in moscow have been doing business with the mexican boys right out of mexico city with mass drugs and mass counterfeiting in millions of dollars a week, and using our own system and using the paper.
    Manokhin is a spy using our system and making big money doing it.

  3. Leaning Straight Up - trackback on 8/7/2007 at August 7, 2007 - 01:10 AM
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  9. I wish I could say I was suprised, but I can’t.

    The UN is the most corrupt governement body on the planet.

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