As the country struggles to cop with Aid cuts from key Donor countries, more billions of shillings are still being found to have been misused in the guise of pension payments to non existing pensioners.
While addressing the media today, Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba said police had unearthed more ghost pensioners with a total of 1160 having received money that cost the Ugandan tax payer a whooping shs.104 billion.
The scam is said to have occured during the 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 financial years.
Nabakooba said they are going to publish photos of all those who are claimed to have received the pension money and therefore calls upon whoever will see their photo published to come and tell the police if they actually received the money. This is to further help the police with their investigations into the scam.
Late last year, officials from Cairo International Bank Uganda were arrested for allegedly facilitating this as they maintained accounts and used to transfer money to the same accounts without authenticating the identities of the account holders.
Police says more officials of the bank will arrested especially those charged with account opening duties.
While addressing the media today, Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba said police had unearthed more ghost pensioners with a total of 1160 having received money that cost the Ugandan tax payer a whooping shs.104 billion.
The scam is said to have occured during the 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 financial years.
Nabakooba said they are going to publish photos of all those who are claimed to have received the pension money and therefore calls upon whoever will see their photo published to come and tell the police if they actually received the money. This is to further help the police with their investigations into the scam.
Late last year, officials from Cairo International Bank Uganda were arrested for allegedly facilitating this as they maintained accounts and used to transfer money to the same accounts without authenticating the identities of the account holders.
Police says more officials of the bank will arrested especially those charged with account opening duties.
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