Air Tanzania reports invoice fraud in Boeing 767 freighter transaction, President calls for action

Air Tanzania is currently tangled in a financial fraud involving the invoice of its first Boeing 767 freighter. The invoice raised was found to be inflated by nearly $50 million. As per the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) report, the last instalment for the was $37 million but an $86 million invoice was presented to the government. As soon as realising the price hike for the aircraft, Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has called for the resignation of all individuals involved in the fraud. She said: “Where did this invoice come from? What did the contract say? And when you