By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (January 29, 2019) Additional charges have been brought against former managers of the Metals and Engineering Corporation (MeTEC), a military industrial complex at the center of Ethiopia’s grand corruption scandal. New charges show that the former managers were running a diploma mill, issuing MSc and PhD degrees in collusion with a fake University in the ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (December 4, 2018) Police investigating alleged high profile corruption by the former CEO of the Metals and Engineering Corporation (MeTEC) presented additional charges in which Maj. Gen. Kinfe Dagnew had approved purchases and contracts worth millions of dollars without tender and procurement procedures. Among a list of charges police had presented at the court yesterday ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (November 16, 2018) A former head for the power and engineering department at the Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC), an industrial complex at the center of Ethiopia’s corruption scandal, has been arrested at his office in Addis Ababa, accused of wasting over $55.6M. According to charges read at a court in Addis Ababa today, Colonel ...