Italy Prosecutors: WHO Exec Lied About Spiked Virus Report
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Italian prosecutors say a top World Health Organization official lied to them about a spiked WHO report into Italy’s coronavirus response, revealing private communications Friday that are likely to embarrass the U.N. health agency.
Prosecutors in Bergamo placed Dr. Ranieri Guerra, at the time a WHO assistant director general, under investigation for allegedly making false declarations to them when he voluntarily agreed to be questioned in November. Guerra was the WHO’s liaison with the Italian government after Italy became the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe last year.
They have not charged Guerra with any crime, outlining their allegations in an interim investigative document sent to the Italian foreign and justice ministries that listed him as one of six people under investigation in their probe.
Guerra did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. The Agi news agency quoted him as saying he was shocked and “deeply embittered” that prosecutors had placed him under investigation, that he expected WHO to respond to them and remained available for further clarification.
“I have been and am in absolute good faith and I am amazed that the prosecutors have a different impression,” Agi quoted him as saying. Guerra added that he told prosecutors everything he knew at the time but did not have access to all information.
Prosecutors are investigating the huge COVID-19 death toll in Bergamo and whether Italy’s lack of preparedness going into the pandemic played a role. Their probe expanded to include the spiked WHO report into Italy’s virus response, which revealed that the Italian government hadn’t updated its pandemic preparedness plan since 2006.
WHO pulled the report from its website on May 14, a day after it went up, and never republished it. The document’s disappearance suggested that WHO removed it to spare the Italian government criticism, embarrassment and liability.
Guerra was a top official in the Italian health ministry during 2014-2017, when the pandemic preparedness plan should have been updated to comply with EU directives.
When asked at the time whether Guerra or the Italian government had intervened to spike the report, the WHO said it was removed by its regional office in Copenhagen due to “factual inaccuracies.”
But documentation compiled by Bergamo prosecutors, first reported by Italy’s state-run RAI Report, indicated that Guerra maneuvered to have the report taken down and that the Italian government was upset with it. The documentation included private WhatsApp chats between Guerra and a top Italian public health official, Dr. Silvio Brusaferro.
In one chat, dated May 14, 2020, Guerra wrote Brusaferro that the decision to pull the report was known to the leadership of the WHO: “In the end I went to Tedros and got the document removed,” a reference to WHO’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
In another chat four days later, Guerra wrote to Brusaferro that he was meeting with the Italian health minister’s cabinet chief about revising the report and that the minister’s office “said to see if we can make it fall into thin air. ”
The WHO press office, in an email to The Associated Press on Friday, denied that Tedros was involved in spiking the report and insisted all decision-making about it was done by the Copenhagen office.
“The director-general was not involved himself in the development, publishing or withdrawal of the report,” the email said, repeating that it was removed because it “contained inaccuracies and inconsistencies” and had been published prematurely.
It added that Guerra was no longer an assistant director general but rather a “special adviser,” which it said carried the same rank.
Prosecutors cited Guerra’s comments to them, which they said were contradicted by the facts, and concluded that “Guerra personally worked on the removal of the report from the WHO site.”
Previously, emails had shown that Guerra tried to have one of the report’s main authors, Dr. Francesco Zambon [pictured above], alter data in the report before it was published to say that Italy had “updated” its pandemic plan in 2016, which it had not. Zambon refused and filed an internal whistleblower complaint alleging that Guerra had tried to pressure him to change the data. Zambon recently resigned.
Guerra has defended his role, saying the report was pulled because of factual inaccuracies and that he did not intervene to have it removed but merely wanted the errors corrected. He has said Italy’s 2006 pandemic plan was still valid and didn’t need to be updated while he was in charge of prevention at the health ministry.
Dr. Giovanni Rezza, who is now in charge of prevention at the health ministry, has said that he didn’t see anything particularly problematic in the spiked WHO report, much less worthy of censorship.
Guerra testified to prosecutors even though WHO’s legal office had advised WHO officials in November that they were under no obligation to respond to Italian prosecutors’ requests for questioning, given their diplomatic immunity as U.N. officials.
Guerra had gone in his personal capacity and was questioned as someone informed about the facts, not as a suspect. But prosecutors ended up placing him under investigation because they said “he made false declarations.”
Prosecutors laid out the allegations against Guerra in an eight-page formal request to the Italian Foreign Ministry, seeking its assistance in obtaining cooperation from WHO in their investigation.
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A Bill Gates WHO official lied? How shocking. Since the whole fake virus, fake test and fake numbers medical fraud is a lie what else could he do? Same with the Rockefeller founded CDC. big Pharma medical mafia. Remember when the MSM first jumped on the Wuhan bat soup and then swooped in on all the fake deaths in Italy. As I recall when autopsies were done it was revealed that the average age to be 80 with 98% having pre existing medical conditions such as severe heart disease, terminal cancer and kidney failure. Of course they all died of covid.
All the controlled countries ordered their fake PCR tests back in 2018 way before front man Gates even had his Pre pandemic 201 meeting where they coached all the “medical experts” on how to sell the new “pandemic.” Shortly after our senators for Israel held their little closed door meeting, then tipped off the big donors (ten thousand or more only) and subsequently several of these dedicated and selfless public servants were caught dumping millions worth of their stock at the top only to buy back after the viral scam was announced. At this time head CDC shill Fauci did an interview where he made a grievous mistake and told the reporter that masks were counterproductive. This rare spark of truth from an insider was soon deleted. Then Pence cajoled CDC second in command Debra Birx to the podium who said “we have told all the hospitals to tag everything possible as coven 19.” How plain can you get. Debra is never going to make it as a Zionist operative unless she can master the art of lying as just part of normal communication. She must be more like the compulsive lier slick Willie and all our other great puppet actor presidents.
Now that all the cucked idiots were wearing their face diapers (double layer required) isolating, closing businesses and losing their jobs as they obeyed the illegal mandates that should have been ignored it was time for the banking cartel to begin the fleecing the flock process similar to the bailout for billionaire program of 08-09. This time instead of the derivative bubble they used the fake virus as a cover for the asset stripping process where 95% of the “stimulus” went to their buddies on Wall St. for your children and grand children yet unborn to pay for down the road. A little latter the Government’s BLM – ANTIFA staged riots with Fake Floyd would be added in as a further attack on what was left of the states 10th amendment protections. All very favorable business conditions for the Rothschilds Black Stone and Black Rock to pick up more billions in assets as was led by Goldman Sachs and Treasury Sec. Geithner the last time.
America’s once unassailable middle class class has been eviscerated while the plundering, asset stripping operation goes on at an ever execrated rate. No problem, all the animals on the globalist plantation are being conditioned for their future of austerity and deprivation. Those nice bankers at the U.N.have a plan for dealing with not just the pandemic of the fake virus but also the impending Armageddon of that climate change we’ve been warned is imminent for the last 50 years. It’s the Sustainable Development Initiative Agenda 2030-21 where all the livestock will feel safe in the globalist technocracy.
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