EAFCT
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Ethiopian Americans against Fraud, Convicts and Terrorism or EAFCT is a group dedicated to researching; evaluating & pressing legal or other actions against US based Ethiopian organizations & individuals who don’t abide by regulations as set by various United States administrative bureaus.
Some of its activities have been pressing American officials for dispatching convicts living in exile, searching for militant political organizations under the disguise of "charitable organization" who don’t abide by IRS regulations and identifying corruption by Ethiopian associations. Most of its activities are underground researching followed by publications of the cases.
[edit] Work
Some of the activities EAFCT was involved in have exposed corruption and money laundering by an Ethiopian political party called Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD/Kinijit) Specifically, in 2006, leading members of the CUD were found transferring public money of Ethiopian Diaspora contributors who believed they were donating towards the good deeds of the party.[1] In total, around 90,000 dollars was stolen and up to 250,000 public money might have been unaccounted for. [2]Other initiatives taken by EAFCT has been asking for handing over of exiled convicts living in America. So far only two have been returned back to Ethiopia. Also EAFCT has been working on fraud issues concerning Anuak Justice Council (AJC) about its political activities in an alleged violation of its honor code with Internal Revenue Service.
[edit] Ongoing research
EAFCT has been engaging in research of AJC's activities which were noticed to oppose its allegance to IRS regulatory codes. Particularly, according to the website AJC is "a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization" and according IRS regulations such organizations "may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities and it may not participate in any campaign activity for or against political candidates." [3][4] Thus EAFCT has been accumulating a large amount of evidence; including AJC's articles, press releases, speeches and others, which indicate AJC's deep involvement in partisan politics and substantial political propaganda.
Other EAFCT activities are concerned with researching the funding and thus arming of terrorist groups & rebels done by specific groups of Diaspora Ethiopians in America. [5]
