Many officials have not declared wealth, deadline ends Wednesday

And top officials already have only two days left to make the property declaration, said in an interview for Online Economics Africa Atatashi Department for Prevention of Corruption in (AKK).

And the bottom line is on March 31st, so far they haven't declared much of it, we have about 3,500 senior officials, maybe less, but we're in the collection process because they're coming through email and we're processing about 3,500 euros from the total number of what is 4 850x1>.

Ataj said they expect by 31 March to declare property to all senior public officials. He said the AKK has envisioned that by law all persons who do not declare the property be presented criminal charges against them.

“We expect that by the end of the deadline all senior public officials will declare their property, even though they may not have declared their property, the measures that the Agency will take as an institution is first by law, that senior officials who do not declare their property within the legal deadline are a criminal cry for all those who do not declare it and have no reason why they haven't stated it, because they can have numerous reasons and especially at the time of the undex1>

Pandemia did not miss even the AKK by causing delays in the property declaration, which, according to Atashi, has been postponed several times.

The “obviously made it difficult because it started last year and we've had delays in the declaration of wealth because, as it is known last year it was the biggest restriction and we pushed two-quarters of the property declaration”.

We haven't had any delays this year, but the pandemic is doing itself because many senior officials get information from the institutions responsible for the formation and there may be obstacles in this respect, but so far I believe it has gone well and I hope that by the end it will go well”.