Addis Abeba – The Ministry of Justice says it has filed grand corruption charges against four employees of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) including its deputy director for Construction and Logistics, who are suspected of buying 29,200 quintals of cement from two factories at a low price and selling it at higher prices. The officials and experts had purchased the cement in the name of the National Intelligence and Security Service and earn more than 30 million birr for their personal benefit in years 2020/21 and 2021/22. A statement from the Ministry of Justice disclosed that the defendants are Tesfaye Deme, Deputy Director of Construction and Logistics at the National Intelligence and Security Service, Ashenafi Tesfaye, Head of Construction and Logistics Procurement Department, Tujuba Kelbessa and Mustafa Musa, who were working as procurement specialists. The statement added that purchase from those factories was made as on the basis of urgent needs for construction works of the NISS. The Committee, led by Temesgen Tiruneh, Director Generation of the National Intelligence and Security Service, said that several high-level officials from land administration and government housing management, security and justice institutions, financial sector, and government revenue and customs offices were identified.

Source: Ethiopian News December 13, 2022 11:52 UTC