Prosecutors of the Federal Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission (FEACC) filed the charge back in 2009 on Tesfaye and the other two officials.
According to the verdict, Tesfaye and the other two officials were found guilty of abusing their power with a view to obtain an undue advantage for two companies called Dimension Data and Global T in a broadband internet expansion project.
Tesfaye told the court that the decision he gave to award the project to the two companies was correct as it was in the interest of the corporation, according to the verdict.
Tesfaye and the other defendants brought in external auditors from abroad which were paid more than USD 28,000 though the job they were tasked with could have been undertaken by the corporation’s auditing committee, according to the verdict. They gave the decision to bring in the external auditors to benefit the said auditors as well as themselves, the verdict read.
Though Tesfaye and the two officials presented witnesses and documents to prove that they did not commit the alleged corruption, the evidence failed to exonerate them, according to the verdict.
The court ordered the Federal Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission’s (FEACC) prosecutor to present aggravating circumstances and also ordered Tesfaye and the other two officials to present their extenuating circumstances before adjourning the case for sentencing the coming Tuesday.
Tesfaye was previously acquitted of two of the charges the commission brought against him while he got four years of rigorous imprisonment on a third charge.
According to the verdict, Tesfaye and the other two officials were found guilty of abusing their power with a view to obtain an undue advantage for two companies called Dimension Data and Global T in a broadband internet expansion project.
Tesfaye told the court that the decision he gave to award the project to the two companies was correct as it was in the interest of the corporation, according to the verdict.
Tesfaye and the other defendants brought in external auditors from abroad which were paid more than USD 28,000 though the job they were tasked with could have been undertaken by the corporation’s auditing committee, according to the verdict. They gave the decision to bring in the external auditors to benefit the said auditors as well as themselves, the verdict read.
Though Tesfaye and the two officials presented witnesses and documents to prove that they did not commit the alleged corruption, the evidence failed to exonerate them, according to the verdict.
The court ordered the Federal Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission’s (FEACC) prosecutor to present aggravating circumstances and also ordered Tesfaye and the other two officials to present their extenuating circumstances before adjourning the case for sentencing the coming Tuesday.
Tesfaye was previously acquitted of two of the charges the commission brought against him while he got four years of rigorous imprisonment on a third charge.
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