Ethiopia Charges Ex-State MinsterOctober 1, 2017 - Former State minister of the Ethiopia Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation and 20 others were charged with corruption offenses before the Ethiopia Federal High Court. The 21 defendants are accused of swindling the Ethiopian government millions of U.S. dollars in fraudulent tender bids, illegal payments to brokers and transferring illicit money to private accounts. The Ethiopian court adjourned the case to October 15 to decide on the defendants' request for bail. The Ethiopian government has since then stressed bad governance and corruption among the major reasons for the preoccupations of the public that rocked the East African country back in late 2016. Source: XinhuaBack Print

Source: Ethiopian News October 01, 2017 19:41 UTC