A Green Norwegian thief. Good grief. How much worse can it get?
UNITED NATIONS — U.N. environment chief Erik Solheim said on Tuesday he had resigned after receiving a final audit of his official travel.
A draft of the report found he traveled for 529 out of the 668 days audited, spending $488,518 with no regard for the rules, Britain's The Guardian newspaper reported in September.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had accepted Solheim's resignation, which would be effective from Thursday, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters.
Solheim, a former Norwegian environment minister, said in a statement that he had decided to resign as executive director of the Nairobi-based U.N. Environment Programme after receiving the final audit report on Saturday.
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
UNITED NATIONS — U.N. environment chief Erik Solheim said on Tuesday he had resigned after receiving a final audit of his official travel.
A draft of the report found he traveled for 529 out of the 668 days audited, spending $488,518 with no regard for the rules, Britain's The Guardian newspaper reported in September.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had accepted Solheim's resignation, which would be effective from Thursday, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters.
Solheim, a former Norwegian environment minister, said in a statement that he had decided to resign as executive director of the Nairobi-based U.N. Environment Programme after receiving the final audit report on Saturday.
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."