€4m in Irish Aid funding is missing

Tánaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore suspended all financial assistance channelled through the office of the Ugandan prime minister Yoweri Museveni after €4m of Irish Aid funding went missing in a suspected fraud.

It is believed the money was transferred to unauthorised accounts.

Auditors from the Department of Foreign Affairs flew to the capital Kampala yesterday to investigate the alleged misappropriation of funds, which was earmarked for education, policing, and tackling HIV and Aids.