Report sheds light on widespread corruptionon by senior TFG officials

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 multiplepassports being issued to the same individuals under false identities and foreignersobtaining Somali passports thanks to the intervention of senior TFG officials. Membersof Al-Shabaab, including at least one senior leader, have allegedly received newpassports, and the Monitoring Group has confirmed that one of Somalia’s most notoriouspirate leaders received a diplomatic passport in his own name with the full knowledge ofsenior 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 theseindividuals did with the money, or whether any of these funds were in fact spent onreconciliation efforts.”

The report alleges that the three top in the cockpit of the TFG leadership, that is the president, thespeaker 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 Hawiye/Abgaal/Harti/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”

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