"A former United Nations employee was charged with two counts of making false statements to federal agents in an effort to conceal his drugging and sexual assault of multiple women while he worked for the intergovernmental organization, according to federal officials.
Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, jointly announced Wednesday that Karim Elkorany, 37, a former communications specialist with the United Nations in Iraq, was charged in an indictment in Manhattan federal court. Elkorany, of West Orange, was arrested in New Jersey Wednesday...
Over the years, starting in 2005, Elkorany worked in international aid, development, and foreign relations for the UN. He also worked for the UN Children's Fund in Iraq. From about July 2016 up to about April 2018, Elkornay worked as a communications specialist for the UN in Iraq.
According to the indictment, around November 2016, Elkorany drugged and sexually assaulted a woman (known as 'Victim-1' in court documents) in Iraq, where he was working for the UN...
The woman subsequently reported the sexual assault to the UN around December 2016. The UN started an investigation and subsequently informed Elkorany of the allegations brought against him, according to the indictment. In March 2018, Elkorany resigned...Allegedly, between 2009 and 2016, Elkorany sexually assaulted or attempted to sexually assault at least five victims after the victims were rendered unconscious after consuming alcoholic beverages prepared by him...
'Investigated by UN officials for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in Iraq in 2016, Elkorany caught the eye of the FBI. Elkorany's conduct, as detailed in today's charges, is abhorrent, and the false statements made to the FBI Special Agents conducting this investigation are federal offenses,' Sweeney said..."