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Uganda Recalls Denmark Officials Plotting to Steal Covid-19 Funds

According to a story published in Daily Monitor, an audio clip of a zoom meeting between diplomats at the Uganda Embassy in Denmark, discussed a fraudulent scheme to share the embassy's unspent funds for the 2019/2020 financial year, ending June 2020. The meeting resolved that each of the three top diplomats would award themselves U.S.$3,120 per day, while their junior colleagues would pocket U.S.$2,160 per day. Section 17 (2) of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), 2005 stipulates that "a vote that does not expend money appropriated to it for the financial year shall at the close of the financial year, repay the money to the consolidated fund." The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has instituted an investigation and recalled implicated staff at the Uganda Embassy in Denmark. Uganda has so far recorded 2,426 Covid-19 cases and 25 deaths.

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