Employment contracts forged by IEC’s Nangarhar office

Findings by a delegation of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) reveal that a number of officials at the IEC have requested a total of 8,292,000 afghanis as salary payments for 160 short-term appointed workers of the IEC in Nangarhar province while their total salaries, as set in the IEC’s salary scale, amounts to 6,615,138 afghanis – suggesting a difference of 1,676,862 afghanis. Findings suggest that IEC’s Secretariat has requested (47487) the Ministry of Finance (issued on June 28, 2020) to pay an additional amount of more than 1.5 million afghanis for the purpose of salary payment of 160 employees who, as the evidences show, were appointed as civic educators, employees, and officers for the IEC’s provincial office in Nangarhar.

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