UN Crimes Report Reveals Staff Sacked for Looking at Pornography‏

From the ridiculous to the most serious - a United Nations staff memo has revealed the levels of criminality carried out by UN employees. Stealing money, joy riding a UN vehicle, transporting drugs and looking at child pornography have all made the list.

The report carried out by the UN Secretariat covers the period between July 2014 and June 2014. The crimes and misdemeanors are itemized but kept anonymous.

The use — or misuse — of UN vehicles makes a frequent appearance in the report: from stealing tires and fuel, to joy riding in an official car and transporting 173 kilograms of marijuana.

Staff members were found to be stealing money earmarked in envelopes for contractors — pinching a wallet from a colleague, and in once instance, an employee siphoned US$2,200 from a passenger traveling on a UN flight while they were being screened by security.

Other offences include assaulting a staff member with a pool cue, a knife attack, driving a tractor into an office building with the intent to injure a colleague, faking educational qualifications and covering up criminal convictions.

On the more serious scale cited as reasons for dismissal or demotion in the report, four UN employees were sacked for receiving, storing and sharing pornographic images — including pictures of children — on their official work computers and using UN email addresses. A fifth staff member was demoted and blocked for storing adult pornographic material on a UN computer.

Under UN rules, once an employee is dismissed, it's up to individual member states to investigate their circumstances and bring about charges, if appropriate.

This report does not name staff or their nationalities, or where the offences were carried out. It therefore, only offers an insight into the somewhat bizarre life of certain UN staff and their code of conduct. It remains unknown whether they will be convicted for their crimes or not.