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Salaries suspended as ghost workers sought

    NAIROBI
    Authorities in the Republic of Congo suspended the salaries of more than 9,710 civil servants on government payrolls on Friday after a government corruption investigation found they did not exist, the Associated Press reported. It quoted government spokesman Francois Ibovi as saying that the discovery of the false names on the payrolls indicated massive fraud within the government. It set up a commission to investigate the matter in May at the urging of the International Monetary Fund, AP reported. Before this discovery, it added, Congo had some 65,000 civil servants on government payrolls, whose salaries topped 130 billion CFA francs (US $90 million) each year. Neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo also suspended pay in September to investigate at least 21,000 "ghost" civil servants.

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