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The prime minister was talking about paid lobbyist working for TPLF.
Do you know how much this guy was paid?
Because he is flip flopping and isn’t getting his shirt together.
Maybe a white Weyane?

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Essex charity conman sentenced

https://amp.mynewsdesk.com/uk/hm-revenu ... ssion=true

Okt 10, 2014



The principal trustee of a charity, who attempted to steal over £100,000 in a Gift Aid tax relief fraud, has been sentenced after an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

Eyob Ghebre Sellassie, from Essex, submitted two Gift Aid declarations for 1,300 fictitious donations to African Aids Action, totalling £416,074. The false claims resulted in a Gift Aid tax repayment of £104,018 that he wasn’t entitled to.

Peter Milroy, Assistant Director, Criminal Investigation, HMRC, said:

This was a despicable crime that saw Sellassie use the identities of innocent taxpayers to steal from the nation’s finances, while pretending to support vulnerable people overseas with serious health issues. He thought he could abuse the Gift Aid system to greatly enhance his lifestyle without getting caught. He was wrong and will now pay the price for his criminal actions.

Sellassie purchased the names and addresses of 5,000 people to fabricate donations. He went on to use 1,300 of those names and addresses to support his illegal Gift Aid tax relief claims. Evidence gathered by HMRC confirmed the donations had not been made.

African Aids Action Limited’s stated aim was the

relief of people suffering from HIV, particularly those from Africa and the Caribbean, by providing a confidential mother tongue counselling and advice service and by improving access to HIV and AIDS treatment in Africa.

The charity was de-registered by the Charity Commission and removed as a charitable organisation three days after Sellassie was arrested by HMRC in September 2013.

Notes for editors

1. A photograph of the defendant is available on request or from HMRC’s Flickr channel www.flickr.com/hmrcgovuk

2. Details of the defendant sentenced today (10 October 2014) at Kingston Crown Court:

Eyob Ghebre Sellassie, DOB 05.01.69, a British national originally from Eritrea, of Snowdrop Court, Lower Mardyke Avenue, Rainham, Essex, was sentenced to 15 months in prison, suspended for two years on both of the two counts. He was disqualified from being a company director for five years.

Sellassie was found guilty following a four day trial, on two counts of fraud by false representation under the Fraud Act 2006.

3. Gift Aid tax relief can only be claimed on donations received by a UK registered Charity from an individual if:

donors have paid enough tax on UK income or Capital Gains tax to cover the amount a charity will claim.
the donation takes the form of a sum of money. donors have signed a Gift Aid Donation form confirming they want the charity to claim Gift Aid tax relief on the donation.

4. The charity uses the donation in accordance with its charitable objectives.

5. Follow HMRC Press Office on Twitter @HMRCpressoffice


Issued by HM Revenue & Customs Press Office

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is the UK’s tax authority.

HMRC is responsible for making sure that the money is available to fund the UK’s public services and for helping families and individuals with targeted financial support.

GO TO HM REVENUE & CUSTOMS (HMRC) NEWSROOM

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"Aid" organizations, function like any other share company/corporation. So even if he isn't directly paid by the weyane, their cashcow junta being eliminated from the HoA hurts them in the long run. It's like when a drug dealer, can't find any addict to sell his s**t to.

The prime minister was talking about paid lobbyist working for TPLF.
Do you know how much this guy was paid?
Because he is flip flopping and isn’t getting his shirt together.
Maybe a white Weyane?

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Eyob Ghebre Sellassie, DOB 05.01.69, a British national originally from Eritrea, of Snowdrop Court, Lower Mardyke Avenue, Rainham, Essex, was sentenced to 15 months in prison, suspended for two years on both of the two counts. He was disqualified from being a company director for five years.

It's unusual for an Eritrean nationalist posting something negative on an Eritrean national? What is up with this?

Is this your renewed Shaebia self?

"Aid" organizations, function like any other share company/corporation. So even if he isn't directly paid by the weyane, their cashcow junta being eliminated from the HoA hurts them in the long run. It's like when a drug dealer, can't find any addict to sell his s**t to.

I can't imagine HRW shall be short of clients. The Dir. Ken may have made a mistake under this unique circumstances; the incident took place in "Tigrai" with a TPLF leadership on the run. Some fake news circulating aside, a foreigner can't imagine an escaping local force massacres its own people? Off course we know better, because the incident took place in forcefully annexed Amhara territory.


The following is funny!

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He's for an "agazian" state, so I'd say he has forfeited his Eritreaness.

As for HRW, if you think Ethiopia is just a client you're way off the mark. A country of 120M & the HQ's of the AU, where all NGO's from A-Z have an office?

Eyob Ghebre Sellassie, DOB 05.01.69, a British national originally from Eritrea, of Snowdrop Court, Lower Mardyke Avenue, Rainham, Essex, was sentenced to 15 months in prison, suspended for two years on both of the two counts. He was disqualified from being a company director for five years.

It's unusual for an Eritrean nationalist posting something negative on an Eritrean national? What is up with this?

Is this your renewed Shaebia self?

"Aid" organizations, function like any other share company/corporation. So even if he isn't directly paid by the weyane, their cashcow junta being eliminated from the HoA hurts them in the long run. It's like when a drug dealer, can't find any addict to sell his s**t to.

I can't imagine HRW shall be short of clients. The Dir. Ken may have made a mistake under this unique circumstances; the incident took place in "Tigrai" with a TPLF leadership on the run. Some fake news circulating aside, a foreigner can't imagine an escaping local force massacres its own people? Off course we know better, because the incident took place in forcefully annexed Amhara territory.


The following is funny!

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UN agency hit with corruption allegations at climate projects

United Nations Development Programme internal audit describes signs of fraud and collusion


A copy of a draft report by UNDP’s office of audit and investigations described ‘financial misstatements’ worth millions of dollars at projects funded by the Global Environment Facility © Sergeyacros/Dreamstime

Edward White in Wellington and Leslie Hook in London YESTERDAY

https://www.ft.com/content/054a529c-e79 ... 5d01672766

The United Nations Development Programme is facing several allegations of fraud and corruption linked to the multibillion-dollar Global Environment Facility, according to documents seen by the Financial Times.

A copy of a draft report by UNDP’s office of audit and investigations, https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/ho ... audit.html dated November 2020, described “financial misstatements” worth millions of dollars across UNDP’s portfolio of GEF-funded projects around the world.

The report highlighted problems including signs of “fraudulent activities” at two country offices and

suspicions of collusion among the various project managers

at another, without naming the countries.

Issues identified by the audit could seriously compromise the achievement of the objectives of the audited entity,

the report said.

The GEF https://www.thegef.org/about-us was set up in 1991 as part of the World Bank to help fight environmental challenges such as deforestation, species conservation and pollution. It has since split out to become an independent organisation and disbursed more than $21bn in 170 countries, including $7bn in projects managed by the UNDP.

The audit of the UNDP’s GEF-funded projects — which covers 2018 and 2019 and is the first review of its kind since 2013 — comes against a backdrop of rising concern from some donor countries over management and oversight issues at the UNDP.

An investigation https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/14/gr ... orruption/ by Foreign Policy in 2019 published whistleblower accounts alleging the misappropriation of millions of dollars at a UNDP-run GEF project in Russia. Twelve donor countries — including the US, France, Australia and Japan — have since sought an independent review of the UNDP’s handling of that project, according to a letter seen by the FT.

Matters of misconduct and misappropriation of funds continue to obstruct sustainable development across the world,

the donors said in March in the letter to Achim Steiner, the UNDP administrator since 2017.

The words ‘climate’ and ‘corruption’, people see these as two different worlds, but there is a lot of overlap

Brice Böhmer, Transparency International

In a written response to the FT, the UNDP said it

takes all cases of financial mismanagement and other irregularities extremely seriously,

adding that its GEF projects were some of the organisation’s

most closely monitored.

The portfolio, the majority of which is implemented by national and subnational institutions, civil society organizations as well as other UN organizations, is subject to an intricate system of regular reviews, independent assessments and audits,

the UNDP said.

While there have been “allegations of misuse of funds” at certain projects, such complaints affected “a tiny fraction — 1.4 per cent” of the UNDP’s GEF-funded portfolio, it added. The GEF did not respond to a request to comment for this article.

Other project audits from independent consultants as well as written complaints from current and former UNDP staff, all seen by the FT, suggest that concerns over alleged financial misconduct and poor oversight at the UNDP may be widespread.

What happened in Russia is a Russian problem. But things going wrong are very common,

said Frank Klinckenberg, a European environmental expert who has reviewed GEF programmes across the world for more than 10 years.

An independent review of a GEF-funded UNDP project in Uzbekistan, seen by the FT, warned that financial information provided by the UNDP was not reliable and “must be questioned”.

As a further result, this [midterm review] is required, by UNDP guidelines, to refer this project for a fraud investigation,

the draft report said.

According to another long-term external consultant to the UNDP, problems raised in project reviews frequently seemed to be ignored by senior staff.

I don’t understand some of the management responses that have been made,

said the consultant, who asked not to be named.

We have an urgent climate crisis.

The claims of misconduct at the UNDP are not the first allegations of impropriety linked to the UN’s climate work and represent one of the many challenges facing the UN as it seeks to co-ordinate a global response to climate change.

The UN-backed, South Korea-based, Green Climate Fund, the world’s largest climate finance institution, has faced a recent wave of internal misconduct complaints, including allegations of sexism and harassment https://www.ft.com/content/d04de053-9b7 ... cfe12e70ee in the workplace, the FT reported in August.

The words ‘climate’ and ‘corruption’, people see these as two different worlds, but there is a lot of overlap,

said Brice Böhmer, the head of climate governance integrity at Transparency International, the global anti-corruption group.

Another person familiar with the allegations at the UNDP said there was a history of UNDP internal reviews avoiding “naming names”.

No one is accountable, no one is responsible. The UNDP lets itself off the hook,

the person said, also asking not to be named.

These funds are intended for the poorest of the poor . . . at what point will donors [to the GEF] decide to suspend funding?

Transparency International’s Mr Böhmer said governance at the GEF had improved in recent years, but noted that the GEF had limited authority over UNDP projects, which are implemented according to UNDP standards. Mr Böhmer has not seen the audit of the UNDP’s GEF projects reviewed by the FT and could not comment on its details.

When it comes to climate, we need to have much higher standards,

he said.

If it is a project that is supposed to help an affected population adapt, then this is like penalising them twice.

The UNDP issued a public statement in response to this article after publication. It can be viewed here. https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/ho ... erage.html

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EmbassyMedia - Interview with Dr Tekeste Ghebray former Executive Secretary of IGAD

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Eritrea, International Aids Day



Rigorous public awareness campaigns, active involvement of all stakeholders and concerted preventive measures focussed on vulnerable groups throughout the country, have resulted in steady reduction of HIV prevalence to 0.37% by 2019






ኣብ ኤርትራ፡ ኣብ 2003 ኣስታት 4.3% ዝነበረ መልከፍቲ ኤች.ኣይ.ቪ፡ ብዝተኻየደ ውሁድ ናይ ምክልኻል ንጥፈታት፡ ኣብ 2019 ናብ 0.37% ከምዘንቈልቈለ፡ ጸብጻብ ሚኒስትሪ ጥዕና የነጽር።

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