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Jan 23 , 2019

Tadesse Kassa, a.k.a Tinkishu, former CEO of TIRET.



Tadesse Kassa, a.k.a Tinkishu, former CEO of TIRET, has been arrested this morning at his residence in Addis Abeba. His arrest was made about the same time of police arresting Bereket Simon, also chairman of the Board of Directors of TIRET, an endowment company with relations to the ADP, a ruling party in Amhara Regional State. Tadesse was also a founding member of the ANDM and the ruling EPRDF.


PUBLISHED ON Jan 23,2019 [ VOL 19 , NO 978]

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