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Fed Police Arrest 61 Government Officials

April 12 , 2019

Federal Police have arrested Yigezu Daba, director general of the Public Procurement & Property Disposal Service and 60 other government officials on suspicion of corruption and economic sabotage.

Officials from the then Ministry of Finance, Economics & Cooperation, the Public Procurement & Property Disposal Service, the Food & Drug Administration Agency, the Pharmaceuticals Fund & Supply Agency and the Ethiopian Water Works Construction Enterprise were also arrested yesterday, April 11, 2019, by a police operation that began early in the morning.


The Office of the Attorney General is expected to give a press conference late in the afternoon today.

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