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Presumably, the last update on my previous post.

Oxfam's ex-Haiti chief dismisses sex party allegations as 'absolute nonsense'

'The man at the centre of the Oxfam sex scandal has broken his silence, denying allegations he solicited
prostitutes or held sex parties while working for the charity.

In a TV interview accompanied by a long open letter, Roland van Hauwermeiren said that much of what was
alleged against him was "absolute nonsense". “Of course I’m not regarded very well by people perhaps who
were less professional journalists who allege that Oxfam is an instrument to have sex orgies with the help of
upstanding citizens but that’s absolute nonsense.” Mr van Hauwermeiren told Belgium’s VTM television...'

'...The newspaper [The Timees] reported that those familiar with the case said they’d seen footage which
resembled an orgy and they couldn’t rule out that some of the women involved may have been under age.

Attempting to explain his version of events, Mr van Hauwermeiren said he had a relationship with a local
Haitian woman but that she was not a prostitute.
“It was clean, just as if I’d met a lady here in Belgium – and I do have a lady friend – and I don’t see anything
wrong with that. Of course I admit, at that moment, I should have been better and cleverer, knowing that the
rumour mill is operating everywhere and I could give cause for suspicion.”

'...In the open letter he added: "I made mistakes. And I am deeply ashamed. Indeed I admitted to the
investigators that I had three times intimate contact in my house. I felt it was a grown, honourable lady,
not a victim of the earthquake and not a prostitute.

"I had met her because I supported her younger sister and her mother with diapers and powder milk.
I have never given her money. "The investigators asked about this and I admitted right away.
There were also many attempts by men and women to enter my house trying to ask for money for a variety
of fake reasons, to ask for a job, or to offer sexual services. I never accepted their advances."

Mr van Hauwermeiren also counters allegations against him relating to his charity assignments in Liberia
and Chad as well as Haiti. On the Liberia deployment, in 2006, he admits being in the company of women
he later discovered to be prostitutes but denies any intimacy with them.

"I was indeed witness when two friends of mine took two ladies (afterwards it was discovered they were
prostitutes) to a bar, and I danced there with them. I also greeted them afterwards at a nice coming together
(not a sex party) with officials, and danced with them and flirted.
I had NO contact with prostitutes, nor did I invite them as was suspected at first."...'

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