Interesting enough the electronic payment system was introduced to end corruption and misappropriation of civil servants salaries, which was rampant when State employees were receiving their pay through sealed envelopes.
But now prosecutors in Kinshasa have launched an investigation to trace more than USD250 million of government money, lost under this banking system, put in place in 2011.
Its appears that the Congolese government had been loosing money through the creation of duplicate and fictitious accounts, where civil servants salaries will be swindled.
The Congolese State recognises 1220 458 employees under its payroll, and would disburse a monthly sum of more than USD100 million for salaries settlements. According to the State Attorney though, around USD25 million of that amount is paid to only 50 individuals. The Attorney also revealed the existence of more than 170000 fictitious agents and duplicate accounts on government's civil servants database.
Now it wants all banks that have been facilitating the payment transactions for State employees to handover all the financial records relating to such transaction.
The State Prosecutor is also investigating The Payroll Monitoring Committee PMC), an institution of government charged with eradicating duplicate accounts and fictitious agents on the civil servant payroll system. Last year the head of PMC, Jean Louis Kayembe, was held in detention over a case involving the embezzlement of USD4,5 millon of treasury money.
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