14/08/2026
Over Le300 Billion Missing at NRA yet the president promoted her to deputy minister of foreign affairs
An investigation by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) into corruption-related activities at the National Revenue Authority (NRA) reveals that the ASYCUDA system had been seriously compromised, resulting in the loss of over 300 billion leones in government revenue.
The ACC found evidence of deliberate and unauthorised deletion of customs declarations from the ASYCUDA system after payments relating to those declarations had already been processed.
According to the ACC’s report, dated 10th July 2026, the evidence gathered through system analysis, broker complaints, bank records, interviews and internal documentation established that these deletions did not occur through ordinary front-end operations but through backend technical access.
“These deletions could not have occurred through ordinary front-end operations and required backend technical access,” the report states, raising questions about who had access to such privileges.
The commission also found what it described as serious weaknesses in user access management, reconciliation procedures and supervisory controls within the ASYCUDA system.
Of particular concern, the ACC says dormant and unauthorised bank teller profiles remained active and were used to validate transactions long after the account holders had left their respective financial institutions.
The report says the continued use of such profiles “significantly compromised the integrity of the revenue collection process” and created opportunities for the diversion of government revenue through official banking channels.
That inability to recover the deleted records, the ACC notes, demonstrates the extent of the system compromise and the absence of adequate safeguards for audit-trail preservation and disaster recovery.
Perhaps the most striking conclusion in the report is the commission’s assessment that the incidents were not simply isolated administrative mistakes.
The ACC concludes that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that the unauthorised deletions and related activities formed part of a coordinated scheme, facilitated by serious institutional control failures and possible collusion among certain functional and technical personnel.
Statements obtained from key suspects and management officials reportedly consistently confirmed that functional ASYCUDA staff did not have the authority to permanently delete declarations from the system.
According to the report, this points towards the possible involvement or collaboration of individuals with backend ICT privileges.
The ACC also identified a pattern of uncontrolled profile resets, inadequate monitoring, and failures in daily reconciliation mechanisms, despite the existence of real-time payment visibility within the ASYCUDA platform.
The investigation did not end with the specific deletions examined.
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