World Bank

Dear Danielle Stevens,

Thank you for your email dated July 30, 2025. You have contacted the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO), the independent accountability and recourse mechanism forIFC and MIGA (Private Sector arms of theWorld Bank Group, an international financial institution). CAO's mandate is to receive and address social and environmental complaints of people who are affected, or may be affected, by IFC and/or MIGA projects. CAO does not address complaints unrelated to an IFC or MIGA project.

In accordance with the CAO’s Policy, in order for this office to process a complaint it must: i) Relate to an IFC or MIGA project; ii) Raise social and environmental issues; and iii) Be filed by an individual and/or community directly affected by the project or filed by their representative(s). At first reading, your email does not appear to refer to an IFC or MIGA project. Accordingly, it cannot be processed by this office. We believe you have reached our office in error.

If you need further clarifications or have further questions about the CAO or its mandate, please do not hesitate to contact us again.

Yours sincerely,

Amenah Smith

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Amenah Smith

Senior Executive Assistant

Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO)    2121 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW ︱Washington, DC 20433, USA 

 asmith@worldbankgroup.org

2/08/2025

Subject: Re: TCDD Financial Complicity – Misclassification of Submission

Dear CAO Team,

Thank you for your response.

To clarify: this is not a complaint regarding a single IFC or MIGA project. This is a formal legal submission involving transnational financial complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and systemic chemical harm, including exposure to TCDD (dioxin) stemming from the Vietnam War.

The World Bank Group — including IFC, MIGA, and affiliated financial partners — has long-standing financial relationships with corporations that manufactured, profited from, and laundered the legacy of Agent Orange (TCDD), with full knowledge of its human cost. The financial chain did not end with spraying. It continues to this day through banking, investment, and corporate shielding mechanisms, many of which are underwritten, insured, or otherwise legitimized by IFC/MIGA frameworks.

Your refusal to acknowledge this as within scope signals institutional evasion, not legal clarity. I will now escalate this to:

• The World Bank Integrity Vice Presidency (INT),

• The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) under TOC/financial crime mechanisms,

• The International Criminal Court (ICC) under Articles 25 and 7 of the Rome Statute,

• And global press and public oversight, now tracking this case.

Your response will be logged and submitted as evidence of attempted procedural deflection in an active crimes-against-humanity complaint. You are now formally on record.