Because of the bribery incident of the selection commissioner, the UNEP is now in chaos internally.
The executive chairman, Mr. Robert, has already taken the blame and resigned immediately.
He is the top official of the UNEP, and he has an inescapable responsibility for such incidents in personnel management, and he is not wronged.
In addition to Mr. Lobett, several other senior officials have also been suspended and will not be reinstated until the matter is investigated.
Because this time the incident was very big, there was a lot of criticism of the United Nations from the outside world, and some countries contributed to the flames, so the incident became a big mess.
The Secretariat attached great importance to this and sent a special investigation team to the Planning Department to investigate.
However, this made the entire planning department panic, and basically all business came to a standstill.
The person in charge of the work of the Environment Program now is the newly transferred official of the Environment Program—William.
William had been to Xiaguo, signed an order agreement with Muya for 100 million saplings, and led the matter of letting Muya hand over the saplings first, and they would pay later.
In fact, he has been working in the secretariat. Because he went to suppliers to negotiate prices for UNEP several times in recent years, he is considered to be familiar with the operation of UNEP. After such a thing happened this time, he was quickly transferred. When he arrived at the Planning Department, he was responsible for managing the work of the Planning Department. In the future, when the investigation team leaves, he may directly succeed Mr. Roberto and become the next executive chairman.
Early in the morning, William received several calls from the heads of the North Philippines and Midwinter regions, which made him feel a little annoyed for no reason.
The contents of these calls are all the same, which means that the new batch of saplings is not good, and I hope he can order some of the previous batch of saplings.
Although William has just joined the planning department, he also knows that the planning department's tree planting work in the northern Philippines and the mid-winter region is the top priority, and there must be no mistakes.
If he wants to successfully take over the position of executive chairman of the Planning Department, there can be no mistakes in his hands, at least not for now.
After thinking about it, he quickly called his secretary and asked her to check on the saplings.
He mainly wanted to find out the difference between the two batches of saplings. If there were no major problems, he would order the previous saplings as requested by the heads of Beifei and Zhongdong.
After a while, the secretary found the records of the saplings, and reported to William: "Mr. William, these two batches of saplings are indeed from different places. The previous batch of saplings was bought from Xiaguo, 100 million plants, already They are all used up. The recent batch of saplings came from Brazil, and we still have one-third of the stock on hand."
"oh?"
William was thoughtful and remembered something.
The secretary continued: "The price of the last batch of saplings was relatively high, and on average, each sapling was twice or even twice the price of the same saplings on the market..."
After a slight pause, the secretary said again: "I don't know if there is something wrong with it, Mr. William, you... should I check it out?"
William had completely remembered in an instant that he was the one who personally discussed the batch of saplings in Xia Guo.
When he received the task of going to Xia Guo, he also noticed that the price of saplings produced by Xia Guo's company was relatively high, so he specifically asked the technical officer of the Planning Department at that time.
The technical official told him that the saplings of Xiaguo's company are of very good quality and have a high survival rate after planting, which cannot be compared with ordinary saplings, so a higher price is acceptable.
He didn't think much about it at the time, and signed the purchase contract according to the original price, and later won the terms of deferred payment for the Planning Department, and the task was completed very smoothly.
so…
Is this batch of saplings with a high price really better
William thought about what he had seen and heard when he was in Xiaguo, pondered for a while and said: "There is no need to check, there should be no problem. Since their saplings are good, there is no problem if they are a little more expensive, so let's continue to order from them."
"Yes, Mr. William, I'll do it right away."
The secretary left quickly and went out to carry out the order.
But after a while, the secretary came back in a hurry and told William a "bad news".
"What, you said they have been included in our investigation list?"
William also felt a little stunned when he heard the secretary's words.
Didn't the accident happen in Nanmizhou? How did Xia Guo get involved
The secretary added: "Mr. William, not only that, we still have a balance of more than 20 million Xia Guobi for the last batch of saplings, and the money has been temporarily withheld by the investigation team."
William frowned, not expecting this to happen.
He really couldn't figure out how the investigation team operated. The matter of taking bribes between Xiaguo's company and the purchase specialist didn't seem to be related at all. What did they investigate? It would be even more unreasonable to withhold the balance.
After thinking for a while, seeing the secretary still standing there waiting for his reply, he waved his hand: "Okay, I see, you go out first, I will deal with this matter."
Hearing this, the secretary breathed a sigh of relief, turned and left.
Now there is a lot of turmoil within the UNEP, and it would be no good to get involved in something like this. Of course, the secretary is not willing to let it go.
William sat in his seat and thought for a long time, hesitating very much.
Under normal circumstances, since the investigation team included that Xiaguo company in the investigation list, there must be a reason. It is not a good thing for him to ask rashly, and he should stop here.
However, he had just been appointed as the head of the Planning Department, and the officials in charge of the Beifei and Zhongdong regions below reported the situation to him, but he completely ignored it.
More importantly, this time it's not just about the North Philippines and the Middle East region. The person who called just now is the agricultural step-by-step leader of the State of Israel. He wants to ask him about the Xiaguo company's information and reveal his hope. The UNEP is helping to order a batch of saplings.
You must know that ordering saplings in the name of the Environment Program can get the biggest discount in many cases, and the Israelis are now thinking about it.
Although William looked down on the little thought of the Israelis, he also knew that the Israelis had the most advanced technology in the world in the development of water-saving agriculture, which is what the UNEP must rely on.
So, if he can't even do what the Israelis "requested", how can he cooperate with them in the future
After a little tidying up the thoughts in his mind, William picked up the phone and dialed the investigation team.
Although he is not a member of the investigation team, he is also from the secretariat. The investigation team has a good relationship with him. As long as the reason is correct, he feels that he should have no problem communicating.