[ 04/03/2011 - 07:46 PM ]
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Mahmoud Abu Al-Rub, the PA comptroller, has uncovered Thursday that Salam Fayyad made a number of transactions that squandered millions of dollars from the money of the Palestinian people.
Sources close to Abu Al-Rub revealed that he submitted a report to the de facto PA chief Mahmoud Abbas about Fayyad's corrupt transactions including the deal in which Fayyadh agreed to pay 50 million dollars to Zionist occupation soldiers killed in Palestinian resistance attacks in 1996.
5000 armed members of the Aqsa Brigades (Fatah) were receiving salaries under the category “hunted Fatah members”. Fayyad was supposed to integrate all those fighters into PA security forces, but he left 1000 of them, mostly from Nablus, out of the forces and he still pays them salaries in what seems to be an attempt by Fayyad to have his own private militia as well as buying the loyalty of officers in the security forces with large sums of money and undeserved promotions.Abu Al-Rub said in his report that such so called salaries were in fact bribes to buy loyalty and urged Abbas not to give the portfolio of finance to Fayyadh in order to reduce corruption in the PA despite Fayyadh's insistence on keeping the portfolio in his hand relying on the Israeli, EU, and US support for him in this regard.
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(Reuters)- "... The letter, signed by senior Fatah officials, was sent to Abbas on Saturday, but the president "did not take it seriously", a Fatah official told Reuters.... the request underlined deep political friction at the heart of the Palestinian Authority, with many Fatah activists clearly frustrated by Fayyad, ...as prime minister he controls finances and security, leaving many Fatah members to complain bitterly in private that his high-profile activities are overshadowing their own work..."
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