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Court sends Former Immigration Official To Two Year Behind Bar |
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Addis Ababa, April 15, 2008 (Addis Ababa) - The Federal High Court sentenced former immigration official convicted of corruption to a two year prison term, the Federal Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission said. It also sent a woman it found guilty of attempting to leave the country with a forged passport. The Commission told ENA on Tuesday that the Court passed the sentence on Former Bole Immigration Department Head Engidawork Tegegn and Hanna Gebre-kiristos after it found him guilty of taking a 5000 Birr graft from the second convict in return to let her leave the country changing her name. The second convict was convicted of traveling with fake passport and giving a bribe to the first convict. ---END--- |
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