Chinese grifters tie up UN, Marshalls in scam

Yan smiles while former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (center) holds a box of his miracle water as former General Assembly President Sam Kutesa (right) looks on. (Credit: Emails obtained by reporters)

The stakes could scarcely have been higher for Hilda Heine, the former president of the Marshall Islands.

For years, her remote archipelago nation of just 40,000 people was best known to the world — if known at all — for Cold War nuclear testing that left scores of its islands poisoned. Sitting in the center of the Pacific Ocean, the country was a strategic but forgotten U.S. ally.

But the arrival of a couple of mysterious strangers threatened to change all that. With buckets of cash at their disposal, the Chinese pair, Cary Yan and . . .

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