SNACC to expose officials failing to submit FDs

The Supreme National Authority for Combating Corruption (SNACC) member Mohammed Hamoud al-Matari ensured that the Authority has sent ultimatums to 641 officials failing to submit financial disclosures, including deputy ministers, pointing out that the Authority intends to publish their names in the media, whatever their posts are.

Al-Matari explained in a press release that the Authority sent 415 warnings to officials in the Finance Ministry including a Deputy Minister, Assistant Deputy Minister, General Financial Directors, Fund Secretaries, Accountants’ Directors, and Financial Collectors.

He added that the Authority sent 226 warnings to officials in the Capital Secretariat who failed to submit financial disclosure, including a Deputy Minister.

Al-Matari pointed out that Dhamar and al-Mahweet came out on top of the governorates which fulfilled their commitments in submitting their financial disclosures at rate of 89 percent, however, the capital secretariat records for abiding by decision occupied the bottom of the list at a rate of 33 percent.  
 

Article 24 of law number 30 for 2006 for financial disclosure stipulates that financial disclosures’ failures, for illegal reasons, after being informed, should receive a prison sentence not exceeding six months and in case of repetition, they will be dismissed, not withstanding other relevant laws.
 

The law identified those included by the law as the President, the Vice President, the Parliament Speaker, Parliament and Shora Council Members, the Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers and their Vice Ministers, the Supreme Election Commission Manager, his Deputy and his departments sectors’ Managers, the Presidential Office Manager and his deputies, Universities’ Rectors, their Deputies, the General Secretaries and their Assistants, the local councils, the Administrative Authority employees, the diplomatic corps and councilors’ members, the Judiciary and prosecution members, the Military, security and administrative commanders, financial affairs, Purchase and Store Managers in the Armed Forces and Security Authorities.
 

This law requires that all the groups identified by the law submit to the authority a financial disclosure for his wife and minor children’s fixed and mobile properties inside and outside of Yemen within sixty days of the issuance of the law, or at the time when he becomes included in these categories, in addition to extra financial disclosures every two years.

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