Sierra Leone charges state employees in graft probes

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Sierra Leone charges state employees in graft probes

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/sierra-leone-charges-state-employees-graft-probes-062614855--finance.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/7deEtY8PhPMYIvfVlsaEsQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_ZA/News/Reuters/2013-03-09T064035Z_1_AJOE9280IJQ00_RTROPTP_2_OZABS-SIERRALEONE-CORRUPTION-20130309.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Ernest Bai Koroma, President of Sierra Leone, attends a discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York" align="left" title="Ernest Bai Koroma, President of Sierra Leone, attends a discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York" border="0" /></a>FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's anti-graft commission has indicted 29 state employees - including the country's top doctor - for corruption, most of it linked to the misuse of funds from a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-backed vaccine provider, officials said on Friday. The GAVI Alliance put on hold some $6 million in grants late last year after an internal audit found more than $1 million already disbursed for the impoverished West African nation's health sector had gone missing. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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