Fraud by Red Cross workers and others wasted more than six million dollars (£4.6 million) meant to fight the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the organisation has confirmed. The revelations follow an internal investigation of how money was handled during the 2014-2016 epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. Up to two million dollars (£1.5 million) disappeared due to “likely collusion” between Red Cross staff and employees at a Sierra Leonean bank, the investigation found. The International Federation of the Red Cross also revealed evidence of fraud in the two other hardest-hit countries during the Ebola crisis, Liberia and Guine. Source: Daily Mail Online/Associated Press(Visited 9 times, 9 visits today)Commentscomments

Source: GNN Liberia November 04, 2017 15:00 UTC