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Attorney General suspends criminal cases of prominent business people, companies

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The list includes Shoa Bakery, NICON Plc, Ermias Tekle Amelga, ZTE HK Limited, Tsegu Berhane Trading Plc, Zenit Gebs Eshet Ethiopia, Addis Ababa Abattoir, Ethiopian Tourist Trading Enterprise and Royal Foam

Federal Attorney General announced that it suspended to pursue the criminal cases of prominent business people and companies that it allegedly said committed financial crimes. The attorney general dropped charges related to contraband, tax evasion, fraudulent documents and for not issuing receipts for over 420 entities and over 1,100 individuals.
Those whose charges are dropped after charged with tax evasion and giving fraudulent documents to tax authorities are 69 companies and 45 individuals. These companies include Family Trading Plc, Bags Family Construction, TGM Polytech PP Factory, Shoa Bakery, Tsehaye Zemuy Teklu, Cosmo Trading, Hayleyesus Mengistu, Inter Aman Plc, NICON Plc, Wondwossen Mengistu, TGMD Trading Plc, Ermias Tekle Amelga, Mohammed Seid Mohammed Nur, GO Synthetic Industrial Works, ZTE HK Limited and Ramada Trading Plc.
Of those 21 individuals were charged with crimes related with contraband goods but their cases were dropped. Tsegaye Haile Dendir, Simenesh Eshetu Birru, Tsegaye Hailemariam Ashebir, Kidan Kahsay Gebreyohannes, Asfaw Seyoum Urgessa, rahel Endale Anbori, Amarech Yaynishet, and Biruk Girma were some of the defendants which their charges are dropped.
According to a statement from the Attorney General, over 325 companies and more than 700 individuals’ case was suspended after the attorney dropped their charges for not issuing a receipt. These include Tsegu Berhane Trading Plc, Royal House Finishing Plc, Conark Trading, MNA Trading, Panumun Supplies PLC, Zenit Gebs Eshet Ethiopia, Lemat Hotel and Trading, Super Double T General Trading, Ada Food Complex, Asfaw and Family Bar and Restaurant, and Anbessa Sporty Betting.
Moreover, OK Agro Industry, Ethio-German Pharmaceuticals, TTN General Trading, Habesha Sport World, Lion Trading Plc, Rozita Bakery, Enrich Agro Industry Plc, Blue Bell Computer, Addis Ababa Abattoir, Ethiopian Tourist Trading Enterprise, Royal Foam, BlueBird Trading and Joy Leather are also included in the list the attorney genral pardoned.
The attorney General also suspended 21 cases of individuals and companies that were appealed by prosecutors after being ruled by a lower court. These include Habitat New Flower Homes, Kepa Textile, SZSA Construction Machineries Rental and Gonga Construction.
The attorney general also announced that it will continue to suspend more cases in the future.

CHAOTIC PHASE OF DEMISE

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The demise of the modern world system continues to accelerate, as it enters the final chaotic phase. There are plenty of signs to support our conclusion. For instance, in the realm of the global economy, the usual policy of ‘kicking the can down the slope’ now requires measures that are completely outrageous. For every dollar of debt that is injected into the economy of the OECD (rich countries), only around 0.40 cents worth of GDP created. In other words, capital is being destroyed. The situation elsewhere in the world system is not a whole lot different, if proper accounting is employed. In this final phase of collapse, the sheeple (human mass) has still remained a bystander without much of a say, but that is going to change in ways that will most likely shock the world!
Since the managers of the global system are fully aware of the underlying protracted problematic, they have been hard at work trying to come up with policies they hope will postpone the day of reckoning. To this end, the plan to implement digital currency across the board seems to be in full throttle. Digital currency takes away the sovereignty of the individual, by making him/her fully dependent on centralized organizations, like banks, governments, etc. Digital money can be frozen arbitrarily in any jurisdiction. If an individual is forced to depend on regimented centralized bureaucracy, even to buy the basic necessities of life, if is clear what the impact of a full- blown digital currency regime will do to collective social existence. In today’s money system, a currency, even if its origin is complete fiat, gives the immediate holder of the currency some semblance of anonymity. As we know, tracing an individual fully operating in the cash economy has always been difficult for state bureaucrats. Therefore, any move towards the complete control of currencies/money, be it that of an individual or an entity is something state apparatchiks have always salivated for! See the articles of Greyerz on page 29.
Thanks to John Snowden, we now know that everything we do in late modernity, literally, is under surveillance and potentially traceable! Smart phones, laptops, TV sets, cards (debit/credit) etc., are some of the means the state and the corporations can (and do) easily employ to control various activities of an individual anywhere on earth. The ‘Deep State’ (DS) would have remained ineffective had it not been for such modern day electronic gizmos. Recall our definition of the DS; it is the military-intelligence-industrial-banking-media-complex. The DS is currently working on a project to implant traceable signals (solid chips, etc.) in each and every individual roaming the planet! Various pretexts are being entertained to convince the sheeple to this Frankenstein’s project. The vaccine approach is only one that is bent on leveraging the good old ‘fear and terror’. Currently, the psyche of the world’s population is being systemically softened by the DS propagandists, with the objective of subjugating the unthinking sheeple’s into complete submission. With such massively coordinated global indoctrination/brainwashing campaigns, it won’t be long before the gullible sheeple ‘willingly’ submits to many of the desires of the parasitic global elites sitting at the apex of the social pyramid, which was built with the blood and sweat of the masses!
Even the sciences are now relegated to the world of fiction and voodoo. The ongoing declared pandemic or what critical analysts are increasingly saying ‘plandemic’, is one of the many strategies employed by the DS to prepare the masses to endorse whatever is going to be declared. The latest gimmick involves the misrepresentation of the natural sciences to fit the DS’s base objectives. We can emphatically call the ongoing and suffocating pseudo scientific narrative; ‘Fake Science’! It is being pushed by numerous states, mostly at the prodding of the DS. In the current game of the plandemic, genuine science is presented as ‘conspiracy theory’; nothing new here, after all, it is the CIA itself that coined the very phrase ‘conspiracy theory’ decades back to systemically discourage critical narratives from coming to the fore. The media wing of the DS, which includes the new hi-tech social formats like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, etc., are now busy muzzling real science from exposing the truth about Covid-19 and other planned pandemics.
As if the above are not enough, the hegemon itself is facing all sorts of disturbances, both from within and from without. Internal chaos arising from identity politics as well as class disparity or inequality for short; is on its way of becoming psychologically entrenched, even if it can be weeded out from the streets. The USA is displaying symptomatic behavior of an empire in the process of quickened disintegration. Frantic, polarized and incapable of reaching mutually beneficial agreements with other countries, etc., the reigning hegemon looks like a clueless giant in its dying days. The two parties that dominate political governance in the US, almost exclusively at the service of the corporations and their human operators, are becoming increasingly detached from reality! The obvious lack of integrity, capacity, sincerity, sophistication and finesse, to say nothing about the continuing dishonest appreciation of the major problems of the world, are some of the disturbing scenarios of the current US led empire. Put together, the above doesn’t inspire confidence, to say the least. Given the lack of leadership within the ruling hegemon/empire able to address the major issues of our times, the world is visibly drifting towards unchartered waters!
Despite the dethroning of his grand theory, (Stephen J. Gould, Ilya Prigogine, et al.) the old scientist’s reverberations in the domain of human societies still remain relevant, particularly to those blinded by power and arrogance. ‘It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most adaptable to change’, Charles Darwin. Here is a more recent commentary supporting our thesis. “Our collective interest in the rise and fall of empires is not academic. The meteoric rise of China and the financialization rotting out global capitalism are just two developments that suggest we are entering an era where some great powers will collapse, others will remake themselves and others will gain ascendancy.” Charles Hugh Smith. Good Day!

Agency to accelerate vital events registrations for refugees

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Immigration Nationality and Vital Event Agency (INVEA) issued a directive to accelerate the vital events registrations for refugees. Ethiopia also plans to completely finish the civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) in the coming decade.
Mujib Jemal, INVEA Director General, said that the agency issued a directive to ease the registration of vital events for refugees that got green light in the proclamation that was amended in 2017.
“The directive allowed the refugees birth registration with the appearance of mother or father,” he said.
Previously both parents were supposed to appear for the registration, while the directive ease that and allow only one of the parents to appear for registration, according to Mujib.
“In the past it was a barrier for refugee’s birth registration because both parents may not be available or were separated for different reasons,” he said.
Registering of refugees is a good solution to integrate the refugee with the society, according to experts in the sector.

Photo: Anteneh Aklilu

The process will help those that the country hosts to be part of the economic activity in the country and even allow them with some crucial rights in the economy like to have bank account and get driving license.
Mujib said that CRVS is universal and due to that refugees have a right to get all vital registrations.
Even though the country approved the CRVS proclamation, Registration of Vital Events and National Identity Card Proclamation No 760/2012, the country did not fully apply it until 2016 until Ethiopian Vital Events Registration Agency was established.
The country has also a modern ID system as of 2017, while it is not fully applied. Recently Ministry of Peace and International Institute for Information Technology of India signed a deal to introduce modern digital national identification card, which is a pilot program that will run for eight months.
Ethiopia is one of the lowest in birth registration in Africa, with only 3 percent of the births of children under the age of five registered with civil authorities, according to the 2016 Ethiopia demographic and health survey, which was implemented by the Ethiopian Central Statistical Agency.
INVEA Director General told Capital that his agency targeted to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) CRVS target within ten years.
The United Nations SDG target indicated that countries should achieve the death registration by 80 percent and fully cover the birth registration. “We target to comply within the UN timeframe, meanwhile the AU 2063 plan has more relaxed period,” he added.
The agency stated that it is strongly working on awareness creation about CRVS, which is crucial for social and economic development planning and use as an input for different surveys.

Chamber proclamation to be amended

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The long awaited and controversial proclamation No. 341/2003 for the establishment of Chambers of Commerce and Sectorial Association is at the final stage for amendment, Capital learnt.
Chambers particularly Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Sectorial Associations frequently claimed that the proclamation should be revised. It has also tabled possible revision and direction to show how and why the proclamation should be changed.
Over a decade ago the sector actors expressed their claim that the proclamation is a bottleneck for the operation.
According to the information Capital obtained from relevant bodies, the proclamation is under the final stage to be amended. Source said that the proclamation may be one of the first proclamations tabled to the parliament for amendment in the coming new session, which is not yet known.
Sources said that Ministry of Trade and Industry, which is responsible to develop the proclamation, has finalized the amendment of the controversial proclamation.
Mesenbet Shenkute, President of Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce and Sectorial Associations, said that her association has accessed the draft proclamation. “We have seen the draft document and responded with our comments and recommendation for the ministry,” she told Capital.
The sector experts argued that meanwhile the proclamation is in effect for close to two decades it is not applied properly. “It does not also considered sectors and trade properly, while some crucial sectors do not have proper recognition because of the proclamation,” they said.
Because of the amendment process the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Sectorial Associations general assembly and election was not conducted, according to the information Capital obtained.
Mesenbet stated that her chamber’s election that is expected in the beginning of the coming Ethiopian New Year may take place at the time frame. “We may conduct the general assembly and election since the ministry gave a green light but it will be delayed like the national chamber if the amended law delayed for ratification,” she added.
Capital tried to get further information from Melaku Ezezew, President of Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Sectorial Associations, but it was unfruitful.