Journalists Against Corruption Document YR 1.5 Trillion in Corruption
I lost the link! I think its from the Yemen Times, I have to check it.
Governmental offices’ corruption cases are totaling to more that YR1.5 trillion in illegal transfering, equivalent to the current state’s budget, said a first draft report by Yemen Journalists Against Corruption (Yemen JAC), in collaboration with the Journalists Without Chains Organization.
The report registered 126 corruption cases last year. The oil sector, registering 19 cases, was at the top of the list, with more than YR700 billion in corrupt deals. Aden Oil Refinery Company illegally bought oil products worth YR300 billion alone without announcing bids. “This contradicts the Bid Act by which all companies should abide,” said Nabeel Abdurab, one member of Yemen (JAC).
Ministry of Finance-affiliated representatives came in the second order where corruption value has exceeded half trillion YR300 billion of which was neglect of collecting custom revenues, and YR150 billion was during qat tax collection in the secretariat.
And while the electricity sector stands in the third sequence in the corrupt cases totaling YR156 billion, the health sector’s reached 19 cases valued at YR14 billion.
The corruption cases, according to the report, had various forms: manipulation in tenders, neglect of collecting revenues, and the seizure of public money.
Report drafters pointed out that the cases mentioned have been accumulating since 2003 and were published in 2008 year, affirming their adoption of official and international reports. “We adopted only the reports released by the Central Authority for Control and Auditing,” Abdurab commented.
This report and several others are taken into consideration by corruption-related authorities.
Most of the cases mentioned in the report have reached the Supreme National Authority for Combating Corruption (SNACC) and the first procedures have been taken in cooperation with the relevant government agencies, said Ahmed Qurhesh, a member of (SNACC), pointing out that “of the corrupt cases we examined so far, including corruption worth billions, judiciary has not done any action about it. We talked with the Attorney General to establish a special prosecutor in the authority to refer cases of corruption to the courts in order to avoid the long routine, and I am sure that it will be in the near future.”
