Tuesday, 3 December 2013 - 14:49
80 fraud cases with development aid
The Ministry of Development has faced eighty cases of fraud or abuse of aid funds over the last three years. The number of reports shows an increase from 21 in 2010, to 27 in 2011, and 31 in 2012.The numbers are derived from a overview of malpractices from the departmental annual reports of 2010, 2011 and 2012. The Ministry confirmed that the Netherlands and six other donor countries are attempting to recover 280,000 euros in development aid from Tanzania. The Netherlands lost about 25,000 euros. It is suspected the money went to expensive cars and excessive allowances.
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Deutsche Bundespost
Wikimedia commons The amount is not too bad, compared to the total amount of the program of 30 million euros, according to Professor Paul Hoebink, Professor of Development Studies at the Radboud University. Donor countries appealed to Tanzania on the slow progress of the fight against corruption. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Development emphasized that in Tanzania and in all other cases of abuse, attempts are being made to recover the money. Sometimes this policy is successful. Last year 318,000 euros were recovered from a local employee of SNV in Laos, who had embezzled the money. The man was fired. In other fraud cases, the recovery attempts were unsuccessful. It proved impossible to recover money from the Zambian National AIDS Network, where 98 grand is embezzled. The aid organization is bankrupt. The greatest fraud case so far concerns a vaccination program in Cameroon and Niger of nearly 5 million, with roughly half obscured. Both governments are paying back the amount to the Netherlands, according to the Ministry of Development. Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania and South Africa have been on the 'fraud' list every time in the past three years.
Deutsche Bundespost
Wikimedia commons The amount is not too bad, compared to the total amount of the program of 30 million euros, according to Professor Paul Hoebink, Professor of Development Studies at the Radboud University. Donor countries appealed to Tanzania on the slow progress of the fight against corruption. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Development emphasized that in Tanzania and in all other cases of abuse, attempts are being made to recover the money. Sometimes this policy is successful. Last year 318,000 euros were recovered from a local employee of SNV in Laos, who had embezzled the money. The man was fired. In other fraud cases, the recovery attempts were unsuccessful. It proved impossible to recover money from the Zambian National AIDS Network, where 98 grand is embezzled. The aid organization is bankrupt. The greatest fraud case so far concerns a vaccination program in Cameroon and Niger of nearly 5 million, with roughly half obscured. Both governments are paying back the amount to the Netherlands, according to the Ministry of Development. Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania and South Africa have been on the 'fraud' list every time in the past three years.
