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Former UN employee accused of lying to cover up sexual assault

2020-09-02T18:15:33.794Z


A former UN employee has been charged with lying under oath to cover up several sexual assaults he allegedly committed in Iraq, Egypt and the United States, the Manhattan federal prosecutor said on Wednesday (September 2nd). Read also: South Africa: murders and sexual assaults still on the rise Karim Elkorany, 37, from New Jersey, is not directly charged with sexual assault: he is accused of lyi


A former UN employee has been charged with lying under oath to cover up several sexual assaults he allegedly committed in Iraq, Egypt and the United States, the Manhattan federal prosecutor said on Wednesday (September 2nd).

Read also: South Africa: murders and sexual assaults still on the rise

Karim Elkorany, 37, from New Jersey, is not directly charged with sexual assault: he is accused of lying and withholding physical evidence from FBI agents who came to question him in November 2017, after six at least women accused him of having sexually assaulted them, according to the press release from prosecutor Audrey Strauss.

A first woman had reported in December 2016 to have been assaulted a month earlier in the apartment that Mr. Elkorany occupied in Iraq, after having made him drink in the restaurant, specifies the prosecutor.

The investigators in charge of this first case then updated the accusations of five other women, concerning assaults or attempted assaults committed between 2009 and 2016, in particular in Iraq, Egypt and the United States.

Each time, Mr. Elkorany first drugged them by making them drink a concoction of his preparation, according to the prosecutor.

When victims came to their senses, he sometimes informed them of the sexual acts to which he had subjected them, she detailed.

The indictment does not specify the identity of the alleged victims, or under what circumstances Mr. Elkorany allegedly met them.

Mr. Elkorany - who worked in development since 2005, for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) from 2013 to 2016, then as a UN communications specialist until his resignation in March 2018 - a been charged with two counts of false testimony, each carrying a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison.

Arrested in New Jersey, he was to be presented to a federal judge during the day.

Source: lefigaro

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