{Rwanda National Prosecution Authority has revealed that tax evasion is worrying as it has risen to higher level than corruption with an accumulated loss of over Rwf 16 billion in the past three years. }
This has been revealed today in a meeting organized by African Parliamentary Network Against Corruption (APNAC) Rwanda discussing measures of fighting corruption, challenges and possible solutions to address it.
Discussing the nature of corruption , the Prosecutor General, Jean Bosco Mutangana, the chairman of Public Accountant Committee Nkusi Juvenal and ACP Jean Nepo Mbonyumuvunyi have demonstrated that cases of tax evasion take a great percentage of registered offences in the past three years.
The Prosecutor General, Jean Bosco Mutangana has said that the prosecution has received 827 files of government resources misappropriation, 527 files related to cooperatives mismanagement, 138 cases of bank fraud and 128 cases of illegal tenders between 2013 and 2016.
“ Tax evasion cases were registered in 14 files with over Rwf16 billion evaded. Government resources took over Rwf 6 billion in 321 cases. Illegal tenders occupied over Rwf 5 billion in 24 files, bank fraud took more than Rwf 2 billion in 103 files while corruption related crimes caused loss of over over 375 billion,” he said.
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