Approximately 19,000 emails from Ethiopia's Financial Intelligence Service, previously known as the Financial Intelligence Center, the government agency responsible for monitoring suspicious financial transactions in the country.
Embargo
During an initial embargo, the data was shared with the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF), which shared its findings with various media partners: Bloomberg in the United States; Süddeutsche Zeitung in Germany; Tamedia in Switzerland; and The Continent in South Africa.
The media partners independently evaluated the materials and used other sources of information to verify the internal documents and shed light on both the politically motivated investigation and a broader intimidation campaign against former Ethiopian minister and director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2017, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
PPLAAF and the media partners sent requests for comment to Ethiopian government entities, those targeted by or referenced in the investigation, and others. The Ethiopian government did not respond to any of these requests.
Limited Distribution
Due to widespread presence of PII such as identification documents, the data is only being made available to journalists and researchers.
Research
- World Health Organization director general targeted by Ethiopian government (Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa)
- The secret plot against the head of the World Health Organization (Bloomberg)
- WHO-Chef Tedros Ghebreyesus: Angriffe aus der Heimat (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
- Le patron de l'OMS a subi une campagne de harcèlement qui l'a mené aux larmes (Tribune de Genève)
- Le patron de l'OMS a subi une campagne de harcèlement qui l'a mené aux larmes (24 heures)
- Geheimkrieg gegen den Chef der WHO (Tages Anzeiger)