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Arab States vendor investigation, Annex 4 entry 21

OAISUNFPA Office of Audit and Investigation Services. Annex 4 entry 21 reports an estimated loss of US$140,177.43 and undisclosed ties between a vendor and competing vendors. This fixture maps those facts onto the UNFPA checklist. It is not a frozen desk record.

What happened

Annex 4 entry 21 is an Arab States vendor case in the 2025 investigation summaries.

What the source found

The summary does not publish a related-party, shared-contact, or beneficial-ownership check, and it does not itemize which procurement-regulation elements failed.

Checklist

Checklist: UNFPA OAIS-shaped award desk v0

On file

Recorded as present in this packet.

  • Estimated loss stated in the report

    140177.43

  • VRCUNFPA Vendor Review Committee., IPRCUNFPA Implementing Partner Review Committee., and UNPPUnited Nations Partner Portal. flag status required

    Referred to the VRC. VRC review ongoing.

Missing

Not established by this packet. This does not prove the evidence was absent from the original award file.

  • Related-party, shared-contact, and beneficial-ownership check required

  • Solicitation method must align with the value threshold

Boundary

Trace-li cites UNFPA OAIS. This card separates the official findings from the evidence recorded in its checklist. It does not say Trace-li prevents fraud, does not certify the vendor, and does not imply that UNFPA is a customer or endorser. An investigation is not a criminal verdict. The estimated loss is not recovered funds.

Check this record yourself

Hashes are not issued on this fixture. When a freeze exists, the snapshot hash and the packs hash let a reader recompute the record and confirm it has not changed.

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Summary

OAIS Annex 4 entry 21 reports an estimated loss of US$140,177.43 and undisclosed ties between a vendor and competing vendors. This fixture maps those facts onto the UNFPA pack. It is not a frozen desk record.

Fixture · awaiting founder freeze. Trace-li has not frozen this record. Hashes are not issued.

What the source says

Annex 4 entry 21 is an Arab States vendor case in the 2025 investigation summaries. OAIS states fraudulent procurements, violations of UNFPA procurement regulations, undisclosed ties with competing vendors, and an estimated loss of US$140,177.43.

What was missing

The summary does not publish a related-party, shared-contact, or beneficial-ownership check, and it does not itemize which procurement-regulation elements failed. This fixture records those two registry fields as missing. It does not guess the clause.

Findings

  1. 1. Undisclosed ties with competing vendors

    A UNFPA vendor was involved in procurements that were fraudulent and violated several elements of UNFPA procurement regulations, and had undisclosed ties with competing vendors. The estimated loss is US$140,177.43. The annex gives the Arab States region and does not name a country or a person. This card does not add either.

    Annex 4 entry 21

  2. 2. Referral to the Vendor Review Committee

    The case was substantiated and referred to the VRC. VRC review was ongoing in the annex. A referral is not a completed sanctions decision, and the estimated loss is not a recovered amount.

    Annex 4 entry 21, action column

What followed

OAIS referred the vendor to the VRC. The annex says that review was ongoing. This card stops there. It does not report a later VRC decision.

The award-assurance question

Before signature, can a reviewer see the related-party check among competing vendors and whether the solicitation method matches the value threshold?

Where Trace-li fits

The UNFPA pack checks a related-party field and whether the solicitation method aligns with the threshold. This card shows the shape of those fields for a public case. It is a fixture awaiting a founder freeze. Nothing here says Trace-li would have prevented the finding. The vendor is not a Trace-li client.

Readiness and disposition

Not issued

Not issued. This fixture has not been through a desk freeze, so readiness is left blank rather than shown as unknown, red, amber, or green.

No disposition. A founder-confirmed desk freeze has not been recorded.

Checklist scope finding slice. Not a full Grant Regulations judgment. Shown for shape. Not stamped in force. Schema case-card-export-v1.

Pattern tickets

Stable ids for later checklist and judgment changes. A stub is seeded here. It is not yet an accepted rule.

  • stub

    Competing vendors need a related-party check

    pt:unfpa-annex4-21:related-party-ties

    A solicitation file should show whether competing vendors share undisclosed ties, contacts, or beneficial ownership. Annex 4 entry 21, Arab States, states a vendor had undisclosed ties with competing vendors. The annex does not name a country or a person. The reported loss is not the same thing as recovery.

    Pack unfpa · rule unfpa_integrity_related_party · integrity.related_party_checked

  • stub

    Vendor competition against the value threshold

    pt:unfpa-annex4-21:vendor-regulation-gap

    The pack asks whether the solicitation method matches the value threshold. Annex 4 entry 21 states the procurements violated several elements of UNFPA procurement regulations and does not itemize which element. This ticket keeps that gap on the competition control instead of inventing the missing clause.

    Pack unfpa · rule unfpa_procurement_method_threshold · procurement.method_vs_threshold

Primary sources

Public source file

Public OAIS Annex 4 PDF sha256, retrieved 24 September 2026. Not a freeze hash.

f12d0948980c51f171aafd0cac064340204e4a977f71fe7f2c229bc71955365a

Redaction

Public

  • Annex 4 entry 21 region band, estimated loss, and the VRC referral OAIS printed
  • Pattern ticket ids and the Field Registry keys they point at

Withheld

  • Country and personal names — the annex does not give them, and this card does not add any
  • Vendor names
  • Bid prices, evaluation sheets, and procurement file bytes
  • Any customer upload or live desk packet
  • Freeze hashes — no founder-confirmed freeze exists for this card

Hashes and registry fields

Snapshot hash
Not issued
Packs hash
Not issued
Hash method
Not issued
Frozen record id
Not assigned
Case id
case:unfpa-annex4-21-arab-vendor
Organization id
org:public-case-cards
Project id
project:unfpa-annex4-21-arab-vendor
Award id
unfpa-annex4-21

Snapshot and packs hashes are omitted. They are produced only by freezeAtJudgment (sha256:sorted-json-v1). The sha256 on the primary source file identifies the retained public source file, not a freeze hash.

Pack ids

  • UNFPA OAIS-shaped award desk v0 · unfpa · 2026.1

Classification public-source. Reference Annex-4-entry-21. Donor UNFPA. Each value is present, missing, or negative. Verification on this fixture is unverified until a founder freeze.

  • audit.estimated_loss_usdPresent

    140177.43

    OAIS Annex 4 entry 21, Arab States · unverified

    Field id field:unfpa-annex4-21:loss · entity evidence evidence:unfpa-annex4-21:loss · source page annex4:entry-21 · confidence 1 · source file f12d0948980c51f171aafd0cac064340204e4a977f71fe7f2c229bc71955365a

  • integrity.related_party_checkedMissing

    Annex 4 entry 21 states the vendor had undisclosed ties with competing vendors. The summary does not include a related-party or beneficial-ownership check. No country or person is named.

    OAIS Annex 4 entry 21, Arab States · unverified

    Field id field:unfpa-annex4-21:related · entity evidence evidence:unfpa-annex4-21:related · source page annex4:entry-21 · confidence 1 · source file f12d0948980c51f171aafd0cac064340204e4a977f71fe7f2c229bc71955365a

  • procurement.method_vs_thresholdMissing

    The annex says the procurements violated several elements of UNFPA procurement regulations. It does not itemize which element, so this fixture does not invent a threshold breach.

    OAIS Annex 4 entry 21, Arab States · unverified

    Field id field:unfpa-annex4-21:method · entity evidence evidence:unfpa-annex4-21:method · source page annex4:entry-21 · confidence 1 · source file f12d0948980c51f171aafd0cac064340204e4a977f71fe7f2c229bc71955365a

  • idd.vrc_iprc_statusPresent

    Referred to the VRC. VRC review ongoing.

    OAIS Annex 4 entry 21, Arab States · unverified

    Field id field:unfpa-annex4-21:vrc · entity evidence evidence:unfpa-annex4-21:vrc · source page annex4:entry-21 · confidence 1 · source file f12d0948980c51f171aafd0cac064340204e4a977f71fe7f2c229bc71955365a