Symbol copyright AFP Symbol caption The southern African nation is ranked 153 out of ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY nations in a world corruption perceptions index
Mozambique’s government has came upon greater than 30,000 ghost workers at the civil service payroll.
The civil service minister said a few were paid for jobs that they had not performed, others have been lifeless or fictitious.
The fraud had value the federal government round $250m (£198m) between 2015 and 2017, Carmelita Namashulua mentioned.
She stated the government recognized that state corruption was still a big problem in Mozambique, one in every of the world’s poorest countries.
The southern African nation is ranked 153 out of ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY nations by watchdog Transparency Global in its international corruption perceptions index.
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At The end of the audit, folks that failed to occur stopped receiving their wages, he says.
The take a look at, carried out over two years, investigated a complete of 348,000 staff.
Earlier this year, the government outlined plans to try and regulate spending, especially the general public payroll that absorbs 55% of tax income, in step with the state agency AIM.
