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. He is expected to be presented before the court in the afternoon.
If found guilty, the two counts of making false statements to federal law enforcement agents carries a maximum sentence of five years each in prison.
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