Le Ghana a temporairement ferm\u00e9 son ambassade \u00e0 Washington D.C. suite \u00e0 la r\u00e9v\u00e9lation d’un important scandale de corruption impliquant des fraudes aux visas et des paiements non autoris\u00e9s par un audit sp\u00e9cial.<\/p>\n
Le ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, a annonc\u00e9 cette d\u00e9cision lundi, la d\u00e9crivant comme une \u00e9tape n\u00e9cessaire pour r\u00e9tablir l’int\u00e9grit\u00e9 et la responsabilit\u00e9 des missions diplomatiques du Ghana \u00e0 l’\u00e9tranger.<\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0Cette d\u00e9cision s’inscrit dans le cadre d’un effort d\u00e9cisif visant \u00e0 restructurer et \u00e0 r\u00e9organiser les op\u00e9rations de l’ambassade suite aux conclusions choquantes d’un audit\u00a0\u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 M.\u00a0Ablakwa. \u00ab\u00a0Avec le soutien du pr\u00e9sident Mahama, nous prenons des mesures audacieuses pour lutter contre la corruption et r\u00e9tablir la confiance.\u00bb<\/p>\n
Rappel du personnel de l’ambassade suite \u00e0 la d\u00e9couverte d’une fraude aux visas
\nL’audit a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 que Fred Kwarteng, responsable informatique de l’ambassade recrut\u00e9 localement depuis 2017, avait cr\u00e9\u00e9 un lien non autoris\u00e9 sur le site web de l’ambassade. Ce lien redirigeait les demandeurs de visa et de passeport vers sa soci\u00e9t\u00e9 priv\u00e9e, Ghana Travel Consultants (GTC), o\u00f9 des frais non officiels allant de 29,75 $ \u00e0 60 $ leur \u00e9taient factur\u00e9s.<\/p>\n
Ces paiements, non approuv\u00e9s en vertu de la loi ghan\u00e9enne sur les frais, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 vers\u00e9s directement sur le compte bancaire personnel de Kwarteng. Les enqu\u00eateurs pensent que le syst\u00e8me frauduleux est rest\u00e9 inaper\u00e7u pendant au moins cinq ans.<\/p>\n
L’affaire a \u00e9t\u00e9 transmise au procureur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du Ghana pour d’\u00e9ventuelles poursuites et le recouvrement des fonds publics d\u00e9tourn\u00e9s.<\/p>\n
Rappel de l’ensemble du personnel et audit en cours<\/strong><\/p>\n Suite au scandale, tout le personnel du minist\u00e8re des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res en poste \u00e0 l’ambassade de Washington D.C. a \u00e9t\u00e9 rappel\u00e9 \u00e0 Accra. Le service informatique de l’ambassade a \u00e9t\u00e9 dissous et tout le personnel recrut\u00e9 localement a \u00e9t\u00e9 suspendu dans l’attente d’une enqu\u00eate plus approfondie.<\/p>\n Le ministre Ablakwa a \u00e9galement confirm\u00e9 que le v\u00e9rificateur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral proc\u00e9derait \u00e0 un audit judiciaire complet afin de d\u00e9terminer le montant total des pertes financi\u00e8res subies par l’\u00c9tat.<\/p>\n D\u00e9rangement public reconnu<\/strong><\/p>\n Tout en reconnaissant les perturbations que la fermeture pourrait causer aux Ghan\u00e9ens et aux \u00e9trangers ayant besoin de services consulaires, M. Ablakwa a insist\u00e9 sur la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d’une action ferme pour assainir le syst\u00e8me.<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0Le gouvernement du pr\u00e9sident Mahama applique une politique de tol\u00e9rance z\u00e9ro \u00e0 l’\u00e9gard de la corruption, des abus de pouvoir et des conflits d’int\u00e9r\u00eats\u00a0\u00bb, a-t-il d\u00e9clar\u00e9.<\/p>\n Aucun calendrier n’a \u00e9t\u00e9 communiqu\u00e9 pour la r\u00e9ouverture de l’ambassade, mais le minist\u00e8re des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res indique que les services reprendront une fois le processus de restructuration termin\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Le Ghana ferme temporairement son ambassade \u00e0 Washington D.C. suite \u00e0 un scandale de corruption<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":9,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"topbottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3367,213,3368],"class_list":["post-15380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politique-africaine","tag-ambassade-a-washington-d-c","tag-ghana","tag-scandale-de-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}