Leaked Monitoring group's report sheds light on widespread corruptionon by senior TFG officials

[Abwaan]

This is the report that was to give the current TFG guys the red card and Shatter their dreams of becoming candidates for the August 2012 presidential race. Some SOLers asked me in the past why I sounded so sure that the two Sharifs and Abdiweli will not come back and I want to say now that here is one of the reasons:

 

 

http://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2012/July/24984/leaked_monitoring_group_s_report_sheds_light_on_widespread_corruptionon_by_senior_tfg_officials.aspx

 

 

I feel sorry for dadkii Farmaajo ayaa fiican dhihi jirey oo weli ka daba mashxarada.

[Abwaan]

Leaked Monitoring group's report sheds light on widespread corruptionon by senior TFG officials

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Hiiraan Online

Saturday, July 14, 2012

 

A summary report by HOL

The monitoring group's report outlines how TFG misappropriated funds and the general mismanagement of passport production and key revenue generating authorities including Mogadishu Port and Airport Authority and funds received from leading financial companies and telecom operators.

 

Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan

 

The report alleges that Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan has been looting and awarding contracts to his cronies since he was appointed as Finance Minister and deputy Prime Minister under the former PM Sharmarke’s TFG.

 

The* report alleges that Sharif Hassan was involved in misappropriating $3 million dollars donated by Oman government back in April, 2009. Similarly Sharif Hassan received $1 million dollar kickback from SKA Air Logistics, a company he awarded management services contract for Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport. Sharif Hassan and his business partner Sharif Ahmed Ba’alawi, General Gaafow, the Director of Immigration and Naturalization and Ambassador Abdulqadir Sheikhey, the Consul General in Dubai are believed to own shares in Mondial Technology Information, a company that was awarded Somali Passports production contract. Sharif Hassan also negotiated with Sudanese government to print Somali banknotes of Sh. So. 1,000, 2000, 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 and 100,000 that is worth more than $150 million dollars.

With Respect to electronic passport the report made this damaging allegation that even members of Alshabab were issued passport while some others were issued diplomatic passports “Fraud and corruption became rampant in the passport business, with multiple passports being issued to the same individuals under false identities and foreigners obtaining Somali passports thanks to the intervention of senior TFG officials. Members of Al-Shabaab, including at least one senior leader, have allegedly received new passports, and the Monitoring Group has confirmed that one of Somalia’s most notorious pirate leaders received a diplomatic passport in his own name with the full knowledge of senior TFG officials”.

 

The prime Minister Abdiweli Ali Gaas

 

 

 

Monitoring group report provided evidence how the Prime Minister regularly sends letters to custom authorities requesting tax exemptions for companies or individual that he claims provide service to TFG. The report also alleges that Prime Minister Abdiweli and former Prime Minister Farmaajo administration received $15 million from UAE government but the PM denies receiving the money from UAE government and alleges Farmaajo’s government misappropriated $3.5 million of the $10 million received from UAE.

The report further alleges that another million from the Government of South Sudan is unaccounted and the Prime Minister’s office took its cut. The report alleges that “In early 2012, South Sudan donated, through Price Waterhouse Coopers, US$1 million to support TFG reconciliation efforts in Somalia’s newly liberated areas. A senior TFG official confirmed to the SEMG that the TFG did indeed receive the US$1 million from South Sudan.59 According to internal TFG documents obtained by the SEMG, the PM instructed the Finance Ministry to disburse the funds directly to individual government officials, MPs and political figures, including US$121,700 to his own office. No further information is available as to what these individuals did with the money, or whether any of these funds were in fact spent on reconciliation efforts.”

 

The report alleges that the three top in the cockpit of the TFG leadership, that is the president, the*speaker and PM are said to have misappropriated almost 30 percent of the TFG revenues.

 

Former Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi farmajo

 

 

 

Prime Minister Abdiweli alleges that the former Prime Minister Abdullahi farmajo mismanaged $3.5 Million of the $10,000,000 received from the UAE “The Monitoring Group has confirmed that the UAE donated US$10,000,000 to the Farmaajo administration and US$5,000,000 to the Abdiweli administration. Lastly, TFG PM Abdiweli Ali informed the SEMG that the US$15 million from the UAE had been wrongly reported. He noted that in 2011 the Farmaajo Administration had received US$10,000,000 from the UAE, but only deposited US$6,500,000 to the Central Bank, and that his administration had received US$5,000,000, which was entirely deposited into the Central Bank account. The SEMG could not reach the Central Bank to confirm these claims and the Prime Minister could not understand why his Ministry of Finance had reported a higher amount than that registered by the Central Bank of Somalia”.The Monitoring group did not interview the former prime Minister about this allegation

President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed

 

 

 

The report also implicates the president and the speaker in the 3 Million dollar the Government of Oman donated to the Somali national Security Agency and that the president may have benefited through a third party clan associate. The report states that “One of the recipients of Omani funds identified by Ambassador Sheikhey was A.S.M.J General Trading, a company managed by Abbas Sheikh Mohamed ‘Jamalo’ (also spelt Jimale), a Dubai based Kenyan-Somali businessman and close clan relation of President Sheikh Sharif ******/******/*****/Agoonyar). According to current and former TFG officials, Abbas routinely advances funds to the TFG, and provides meticulous accounts when he wants reimbursement.50 One of his primary services has been the provision of dry food and daily subsistence to the TFG security forces”

“Moreover, of the 30 per cent of revenues that the TFG can actually account for, almost one quarter is channelled through the offices of the three principal leaders: the President, Prime Minister and Speaker of Parliament. In 2011, these three offices spent more than US$12.6 million, representing almost 23 per cent of total government expenditure -- almost as much as was spent on the TFG security forces (US$13.4 million) or the expenditure of all Ministries combined (US$15.4 million)

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Puntland President Farole

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President Farole is alleged to have benfitted the awarding of contracts to foreign corporations in violation of UNSC arms embargo. The report alleges that “Africa Oil, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, has engaged in a mutually beneficial relationship with a Somali security sector institution, namely the Puntland Exploration Security Unit (ESU). For this purpose, the company has contracted the services of a private security company, Pathfinder Corporation. 2. In many respects, including its exceptional transparency, Pathfinder’s operations in Puntland arguably represent ‘best practices’ for private securitycompanies inSomalia. However, in the assessment of the Monitoring Group, the company’s ‘temporary issue’ of military equipment to the ESU, as well as Africa Oil’s payment of ESU salaries (through its subsidiary, Canmex) constitute violations of the general and complete arms embargo on Somalia imposed by Security Council resolution 733 (1992) and elaborated by subsequent resolutions.

Additionally, President Farole gave contracts to foreign security firms that violate the UNSC arms embargo.

[Samafal]

Abwaan, what you got got there is the Hiiraan Online's analysis (which is quite biased to say the least). The real report does not point any conclusive wrong doing to Abdiwali. This report is damning to Sh Hassan in particular and in some extent Sh Sharif Ahmed, the president.

 

By the way, I read the full reprt and I was going to post before I saw your thread.

[Samafal]

Assistance to the Somalia National Security Agency from the Government of

Oman

35. In April 2009, General Mohamed Sheikh Hassan was appointed director

general of the Somali National Security Agency (NSAA), the agency responsible for

intelligence collection and analysis, counter-terrorism and immigration. Upon taking

office, he learned that his predecessor, General Mohamed Warsame Farah

“Darawiish”, had secured US$3 million in security assistance from the Government of

Oman, and decided to request a second contribution from Oman.

36. General Darawiish confirmed to the Monitoring Group that the Government of

Oman had previously provided US$3 million in security assistance to the NSA and

stated that the funds had been used to pay salaries to the Somali security forces, as

well as to purchase rations and basic equipment.31 However, a former NSA official

told the Monitoring Group that a dispute had arisen between former President

Abdillahi Yusuf and former PM Nur Hassan Hussein ‘Adde’ over the allocation of the

Omani funds: the PM wanted the money to be deposited into the Central Bank Somalia account, but the President and General Darawiish had disagreed.32 According to the official: “The money simply disappeared and was never accounted for.”33

37. In March 2010, Mohamed Sheikh succeeded in obtaining a meeting with his

Omani counterpart. The meeting was arranged by the Somali Ambassador to Oman,

Hassan Mohamed Siyad (the son of the late Somali President Mohamed Siyad Barre),

as well as a Somali-Omani intermediary.34

 

 

 

Private management of public funds

Abbas Sheikh Mohamed and Yuusuf Sheikh Mohamed

48. The case of the Omani contribution is also illustrative of the commingling of

public and private interests that characterizes the TFG’s finances, and the way that

public funds are routinely entrusted to private individuals for transmission via

informal channels. This of course complicates the task of tracking funds, and creates

opportunities for diversion, fraud and laundering to occur.

49. One of the recipients of Omani funds identified by Ambassador Sheikhey was

A.S.M.J General Trading, a company managed by Abbas Sheikh Mohamed ‘Jamalo’

(also spelt Jimale), a Dubai based Kenyan-Somali businessman and close clan relation

of President Sheikh Sharif (******/******/*****/Agoonyar). According to current

and former TFG officials, Abbas routinely advances funds to the TFG, and provides

meticulous accounts when he wants reimbursement.50 One of his primary services has

been the provision of dry food and daily subsistence to the TFG security forces.5

[Samafal]

You can see the full report below:

 

http://www.hiiraan.com/PDF_Files/Monitoring_Group_2012.pdf

[Abwaan]

Samafal;850769 wrote:

Abwaan, what you got got there is the Hiiraan Online's analysis (which is quite biased to say the least). The real report does not point any conclusive wrong doing to Abdiwali. This report is damning to Sh Hassan in particular and in some extent Sh Sharif Ahmed, the president.

 

By the way, I read the full reprt and I was going to post before I saw your thread.

Samafal, Abdiweli dembi uusan lahayn cidna ma saarayso adna mid uu galay kama saari kartid....Isku beel baan nahay warkeedu waa dhammaaday. Hiiraan might be bias but they got this one right!

[Samafal]

lol waa markaagii. I am not defending nor does he need my defence, I am just stating facts. Adigu ingiriiska waa taqaan saan filayo don't rely some else's analysis just quote what is in there. That is all.

[Abwaan]

Samafal I got the report via email before Hiiraan posted and read most of it.

[Somalia]

BULLCRAP

[Abwaan]

Lol....Somalia....Abdiweli xaggee lagu qarinaa....? War ninka raggiisuu wax la qabaa ee qiil gaar ah ha u raadinina. Soomaalidu waxay tiraa"Rag hortii ha caban":D

[Somalia]

BULLCRAP

[Somalia]

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[Samafal]

Good. Then it should not be hard to copy and paste instead of telling me about analysis of Hiiraan online.

[Samafal]

Abwaan;850780 wrote:

Lol....Somalia....Abdiweli xaggee lagu qarinaa....? War ninka raggiisuu wax la qabaa ee qiil gaar ah ha u raadinina. Soomaalidu waxay tiraa"Rag hortii ha caban":D

ragiisuu wax la qabaa waa yaan cadaalad la samayn, taasna qofna ma anfacayso. qofkii wax galaan ha la dhaho waxaas baa lagu hayaa kii kalana ha lagu amaano wuxuu sameeyay. Somalia na taas baa u fiican.

[Somalia]

BULLCRAP