A 21,7 billion US dollar development fund sees as much as two-thirds of some grants eaten up by corruption.
Much of the money is accounted for with forged (forfalskede) documents or improper bookkeeping, indicating it was pocketed (pengene havnet i de forkerte lommer), investigators for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria say. Donated prescription drugs wind up being sold on the black market.
The fund’s newly reinforced inspector general’s office, which uncovered the corruption, can not give an overall accounting because it has examined only a tiny fraction of the 10 billion dollar (55 milliarder DKR) that the fund has spent since its creation in 2002.
But the levels of corruption in the grants they have audited (revideret) so far are astonishing. A full 67 percent of money spent on an anti-AIDS program in Mauritania was misspent, the investigators told the fund’s board of directors.
So did 36 percent of the money spent on a program in Mali to fight tuberculosis and malaria, and 30 percent of grants to Djibouti.
SVERIGE HAR FÅET NOK
Sweden has told the Global Fund to Fight AIDS that it will not pay its 167 million euro contribution unless more is done to ensure the cash is not siphoned off. Global Fund Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine said that Sweden’s refusal to meet its commitments would have a major impact on his organization’s plans.
Sweden has refused to stump up its contribution for the period covering 2011-2013 since a report by the UN last year showed how donors’ cash had been diverted by corrupt officials in at least four countries.
Sweden is the biggest per capita contributor to the fund which was created by the G8 group of industrialized nations in 2002
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