By RFIPosted on 15-09-2019Modified on 15-09-2019 at 08:43

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 5,823 bank accounts regularly paid by the state will be blocked because they do not belong to anyone. More than 4,500 others have not experienced any movement should be pruned payroll files, except in case of claim. The eradication of this fraudulent misappropriation of public money should save more than $ 6 million a year. Is this a mafia network?

It would be several thousand fictitious accounts and remained without banking movement for several months. On these accounts were paid wages that nobody has withdrawn for several months. Are account owners dead or uninformed about payroll?

Jean-Louis Kayembe, the director general in charge of monetary policy and operations at the Central Bank of Congo (BCC) is firm in the face of the problem. " These people do not exist and need to be pruned from the payroll. This work has saved the treasury nearly $ 2.7 billion per quarter, "he says.

Accelerate the banking system

These are important savings for the country, but it is necessary to accelerate the process of bankarization of all the agents of the State. For only 85% of agents now receive their salary from banks. For Jean-Baptiste Ndefu, who took part in the control, the delay would benefit mafia networks: "The more it hangs, the more mafia networks that we discovered in 2015-2016 new strategies ... "

It would be a well organized band and not easy to dismantle, according to this official exasperated by the lack of lawsuits against the authors. " What's unfortunate , continues the latter, [it is] the responsibility has been established, but no one has been arrested. We would have liked there to be sanctions, first administrative, judicial. From then on, the system would have blocked itself. "

Other monitoring missions could take place in the coming months, because according to trade unionists, fraud is " well anchored " in the pay of civil servants.

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