ጋዜጠኛ በቃሉ አላምረው፣ በላይ ማናዬ እና ቴዎድሮስ ዘርፉ ከእስር ተፈቱ

 ጋዜጠኛ በቃሉ አላምረው፣ በላይ ማናዬ እና ቴዎድሮስ ዘርፉ ከእስር ተፈቱ

ለፌደራል የመጀመሪያ ደረጃ ፍርድ ቤት “አካልን ነጻ የማውጣት” አቤቱታ ያቀረቡት ሶስት ጋዜጠኞች ከእስር ተፈቱ። ዛሬ እና ከትላንት በስቲያ ቅዳሜ ከእስር የተፈቱት ጋዜጠኞች በቃሉ አላምረው፣ በላይ ማናዬ፣ ቴዎድሮስ ዘርፉ ናቸው።

ሶስቱ ጋዜጠኞች የፌደራል ፖሊስ “ሕገ መንግስታዊ መብታቸውን በመጣስ በእስር እንዲቆዩ” ማድረጉን በመጥቀስ ለፍርድ ቤት አቤቱታ ያቀረቡት ባለፈው ሳምንት ነበር። ከአቤቱታ አቅራቢዎች አንዱ የሆነው ጋዜጠኛ በላይ ከእስር የተፈታው፤ ዛሬ ሰኞ ሰኔ 10፤ 2016 ከሰዓት መሆኑን ባለቤቱ በላይነሽ ንጋቱ ለ“ኢትዮጵያ ኢንሳይደር” ተናግራለች።

“ኢትዮ ኒውስ” የተሰኘው የበይነ መረብ መገናኛ ብዙኃን መስራች እና አዘጋጅ የሆነው ጋዜጠኛ በላይ፤ በህዳር 2016 በፖሊስ ቁጥጥር ስር ከዋለው በኋላ ለሰባት ወራት በአዋሽ አርባ ወታደራዊ ካምፕ በእስር ላይ ቆይቷል። ጋዜጠኛው ባለፈው ግንቦት ወር አዲስ አበባ ወደሚገኘው የፌደራል ፖሊስ የወንጀል ምርመራ ቢሮ መዘዋወሩ ይታወሳል።

አስር ወራትን በአዋሽ አርባ ወታደራዊ ካምፕ በእስር ያሳለፈው ሌላኛው ጋዜጠኛ ቴዎድሮስ፤ ባለፈው አርብ ሰኔ 7፤ 2016 ወደ አዲስ አበባ እንዲመጣ ከተደረገ በኋላ በማግስቱ ከእስር መለቀቁን ለ“ኢትዮጵያ ኢንሳይደር” ገልጿል። “ምኒልክ” እና “ዓባይ”በተሰኙ የበይነ መረብ እና የሳተላይት ቴሌቪዥን ቻናሎች ላይ በፖለቲካ ጉዳዮች ላይ ያተኮረ ፕሮግራም ያዘጋጅ የነበረው ቴዎድሮስ፤ በፖሊስ ቁጥር ስር የዋለው የአስቸኳይ ጊዜ አዋጅ በፓርላማ ከጸደቀ ከአንድ ሳምንት በኋላ ነበር።

 ጋዜጠኛ በቃሉ አላምረው፣ በላይ ማናዬ እና ቴዎድሮስ ዘርፉ ከእስር ተፈቱ

Jiga, Ethiopia : Government Forces Reportedly Execute 25 Civilians in Following Ambush Loss

 In the latest string of known extrajudicial executions of civilians, the Ethiopian government soldiers reportedly massacred 25 civilians in Jiga, West Gojam, Amhara region of Ethiopia. 

Residents and Fano forces from the area have confirmed the incident to Ethiopian News outlets based in the United States. The Amhara Association of America (AAA) – an organization whose mission is “to advance the political & humanitarian interests of the Amhara people of Ethiopia,” has confirmed the story. 

In a social media update, it said, “AAA has learned that today (June 17, 2024) Abiy regime forces carried out a massacre against unarmed civilians in Jiga town of Jabi-Tehnan Woreda (West Gojjam Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia). According to sources, regime forces, particularly riot dispersal forces, targeted civilians in a local hotel, dragging young men out from the hotel before shooting them dead near the entrance. At least 11 people were killed but some sources have reported death tolls of 20 and higher.” 

Ethiopian Media Service (EMS) spoke on the phone to a resident from Jiba who happened to be an eyewitness to the latest tragedy unfolding in the region.

On June 16, government forces suffered severe losses to an Ambush attack from Fano forces in the Berkegne locality near Jiga.  The incident prompted a retreat to Jiga town where they dragged dozens of people from Goh hotel in the town, ordered them to kneel down and executed them, according to Ethiopian sources. It happened around 6: 00 p.m. on Sunday. 

Eleven of the victims are said to be bankers including Abyssinia Bank Branch Manager in the town who is identified as Zemen. Six  four of the victims are high school teachers in the town and six others are public servants in different offices. 

Government forces have also reportedly killed a woman who was known in the town as having a mental health problem and a homeless person. 

The Ethiopian government has been denying stories of extrajudicial executions including those verified by human rights organizations in the country and abroad. At this writing, the government did not remark about Jiga executions. 

In January this year, government forces massacred over 80 civilians in Merawi – also in the Gojam area of the Amhara region. The execution was reported to be a vengeance for battle loss in the town. 

Source: https://borkena.com/2024/06/17/jiga-ethiopia-government-forces-reportedly-execute-25-civilians-in-following-ambush-loss/

Judge grants request from families of Ethiopian Air Boeing 737 MAX crash victims to share confidential docs with DOJ

 A federal magistrate judge in Chicago on Monday granted a request from families of victims of the 2019 Ethiopian Air Boeing 737 MAX crash to provide the U.S. Department of Justice confidential documents and testimony obtained in their civil lawsuit against Boeing. The families contend the information they want to share with federal prosecutors supports "holding Boeing criminally liable" beyond the single criminal charge -- conspiracy to defraud the United States -- which formed the basis of a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) between the government and Boeing in 2021.

Tracy Brammeier, an attorney for the victims' families, said at the hearing in federal court that the documents they want the DOJ to review include exhibits to depositions of various Boeing employees that were taken in the civil case and some limited excerpts of testimony.

"The families are asking for the opportunity to discuss freely … the criminal behavior, or behavior that the families argue is criminal, with the DOJ," Brammeier said.

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, the Air Boeing 737 MAX, crashed near Addis Ababa airport just six minutes after takeoff, killing all on board in 2019.

It was the second crash involving a Boeing 737 Max within five months. In October 2018, Lion Air Flight 610 was airborne for only 13 minutes before it plunged into the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia. A total of 346 people died in both accidents.

Last month, prosecutors informed Boeing that the company had allegedly breached the terms of the DPA, by failing to "design, implement, and enforce a compliance and ethics program to prevent and detect violations of the U.S. fraud laws throughout its operations."

The DOJ's determination -- which came about four months after the door plug of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 blew out mid-flight -- effectively mooted the DPA and opened up Boeing to possible prosecution on the original charge or "for any federal criminal violation of which the United States has knowledge," according to a DOJ letter sent last month to U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor, who presides over the criminal case. The DOJ said it is still considering how it intends to proceed and will make its determination on or before July 7.

Boeing has disputed the DOJ's finding of a breach.

"We believe that we have honored the terms of that agreement, and look forward to the opportunity to respond to the Department on this issue," the company said in a statement in May.

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Three previous requests from the families to share the documents with DOJ were turned down by the court. In seeking permission to share the materials now, attorneys for the families provided the court with a letter from Glenn Leon, Chief of DOJ's Fraud Section, indicating the department's willingness to meet with the families to discuss the documents.

"You may represent to the district court overseeing the civil action that the Fraud Section is willing to meet with the families and counsel to entertain such evidence," Leon wrote, while cautioning that the department's support "should not be understood to express a view on the part of the Department about whether Boeing will be prosecuted or, if prosecuted, whether any charge or charges beyond the one count in the Criminal Information would be warranted."

In reaching his decision, Magistrate Judge M. David Weisman cited the DOJ's letter and the recently changed circumstances surrounding Boeing's alleged violations of the DPA.

"In totality, and in isolation, each of those reasons, I think, establish the good cause necessary to modify the protective order" to allow the families to share the documents with prosecutors, Weisman said.

Before Weisman granted the families' request, Dan Webb, an attorney for Boeing, argued that modifying the confidentiality order in the civil case was unnecessary, because prosecutors have other means of obtaining information they want from the company. "The government has substantial resources to do that through … the grand jury process and other investigative tools," Webb said at the hearing.

"If DOJ simply brings it to us, we'll produce the documents to DOJ pursuant to a grand jury subpoena or the investigative tools that DOJ wants to use, now that we know they're interested in it," Webb added.

Under Weisman's order, lawyers for the families will be required to inform Boeing of the specific documents they intend to share with the DOJ. Boeing will be given three days to lodge any objections if they believe the documents contain commercial trade secrets or classified information.

Brammeier, the families' attorney, acknowledged that the DOJ may already possess some of the documents, but she said the families have been prohibited from being able to discuss the information with prosecutors because of the confidentiality order in the civil case

Boeing did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Read more here: https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-grants-request-families-ethiopian-air-boeing-737/story?id=111199745

Conflict killed 1,106 in Amhara, Oromia in 2023: UN human rights agency

 State actors responsible for 70 pct of nearly 600 incidents

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has published a new report on the details of conflicts that took place in Ethiopia in 2023 and saw the killings of 1,106 people in the Amhara and Oromia regions alone.

UN human rights agency

The report published this week recounts there were at least 4,879 people placed under arrest across 16 detention centers or sites as part of the state of emergency declared in August 2023. OHCHR advocacy contributed to the release of 1,132 people arbitrarily detained by the end of December 2023, according to the report.

Despite significant improvements in the human rights situation in Tigray following the cessation of hostilities agreement in late 2022, the report cites that Ethiopia continued to face a “challenging” human rights situation in 2023, with Amhara and Oromia most affected by violent clashes and conflicts.

OHCHR reports the prevalence of arbitrary deprivations of the right to life, physical integrity, arbitrary arrests and detention, sexual violence, breaches of freedoms of association, expression, of movement, as well as abductions and enforced disappearances. The report notes that arbitrary arrests and detentions were the most common violations, followed by killings of civilians, torture, enforced disappearances, and attacks on civilian property.

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Overall, 594 incidents of human rights violations and abuses impacting 8,253 victims (of whom at least 343 were women) were recorded in 2023, a 55.9 percent increase from 2022. State actors were allegedly responsible for 70 percent of the violations, while non-state actors accounted for 22.3 percent (133 incidents) of which 25 incidents were specifically attributed to the Eritrean Defence Forces.

The report reveals that 740 people in the Amhara region and 366 in Oromia were killed across 160 incidents in 2023. It also highlights the use of drones by the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) resulted in disproportionate levels of civilian casualties, with 18 registered drone strikes that caused 248 civilian deaths and injured 55 between 4 August and 31 December 2023.

Following the declaration of the state of emergency, high numbers of arbitrary arrests, predominantly of ethnic Amhara people in different parts of the country, were documented. Cases of sexual violence, including conflict related (CRSV), were also recorded but remained generally underreported, according to OHCHR.

In 2023, the agency conducted a total of 600 monitoring missions, including 202 to detention facilities. Further to its monitoring and verification methodology, it observed locations where violations and abuses had allegedly occurred, spoke to victims and witnesses, and engaged with authorities and civil society with focus on the Amhara, Oromia, and Tigray regions.

OHCHR also documented nine incidents that caused the forced or arbitrary displacement of close to 43,000 victims in 2023.

The report notes the unnecessary and disproportionate use of force by law enforcement personnel, including police brutality, and other ill-treatment during detention remained of concern, with instances of torture or ill-treatment reported within police detention centers. Out of the 346 victims of torture or inhuman treatment documented in 2023, the highest number of cases were registered in Addis Ababa and in the Somali region, with 160 and 126 victims respectively, perpetrated by state actors.

In 2023, 28 incidents of mainly civilian properties looted and destroyed were recorded, resulting in the destruction of 2,494 private houses, with looting of five private houses, nine vehicles, 1,357 livestock, one hospital, 15 buildings and shops, and 26 private properties in Afar, Amhara, Central Ethiopia, Oromia and Tigray regions. The main perpetrators include the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), Fano militia, the EDF, ENDF and the Tigray forces. The EDF, in particular, had looted livestock in areas in Tigray region falling within its control with at least eight incidents impacting 1,190 livestock recorded.

OHCHR reports the state of emergency declared in late 2023 suspended judicial review of detentions, leading to widespread arbitrary arrests not only in Amhara but also in other parts of the country. It estimates that drone attacks carried out by ENDF resulted in at least 248 civilian deaths in the Amhara region between August and December 2023. The drone strikes also destroyed vital facilities such as schools and hospitals, as well as private homes.

The report notes that both the government and OLA are implicated in at least 188 incidents of violations and abuses including killings, destruction of property, rape, and abductions in Oromia in 2023. OHCHR highlights that the failure of negotiations between OLA and the federal government in November 2023 was followed by a spike in killings, injuries, abductions, sexual violence, movement restrictions, and destruction of property as well as heavier militarization in Oromia.

The report reveals the killing of 29 people and scores of injuries as a result of intercommunal violence between the Somali and Oromo communities over the reporting period.

OHCHR says responsibility for human rights violations and abuses in the Tigray region was largely shared by the EDF and Amhara forces (Amhara Regional Police, state affiliated militia, and Selam Askebari), and, to a lesser extent, the Fano militia. Meanwhile, the Tigray Regional Police, which was still being reconstituted, was also alleged to have perpetrated some violations.

The report urged federal and regional governments to stop hostilities including using drone strikes, ensure peaceful resolution, ensure accountability and judicial oversight, and embark on inclusive transitional justice.

OHCHR also recommended that the government of Eritrea undertake an impartial investigation into reported violations by EDF in Ethiopia and hold alleged perpetrators to account. It called for the withdrawal of all Eritrean troops from Ethiopian territory and the cessation of incursions into Ethiopia.

The report urged the Fano militia to seek to engage in a meaningful political process towards resolution of the conflict.

ከውጭ በተላከ ገንዘብ ሀብት አፍርቶ የተላከበትን ደረሰኝ ያላቀረበ ንብረቱ እንዲወረስ የሚደነግግ አዋጅ ቀረበ!

 

• በጥፋተኝነት ላይ ያልተመሠረተ ንብረት የመውረስ ድንጋጌም በአዋጁ ተካቷል
• አዋጁ የሚፀድቅ ከሆነ 10 ዓመት ወደኃላ ተመልሶ ተፈጻሚ ይሆናል

ከውጭ በተላከ ገንዘብ ሀብት አፍርቶ የተላከበትን ደረሰኝ ያላቀረበ ሰው ወይም ሊታወቅ ከሚችል ገቢው በላይ ሀብት አፍርቶ ምንጩ ሕጋዊ መሆኑን ማረጋገጥ ያልቻለ ሰው፣ ንብረት በመንግሥት እንዲወረስ የሚፈቅድ ድንጋጌ የያዘ ረቂቅ አዋጅ ለሕዝብ ተወካዮች ምክር ቤት ቀረበ።

Ethiopia's remittances inflow in danger 

ረቂቅ አዋጁ ‹‹የንብረት ማስመለስ አዋጅ›› የሚል ስያሜ የተሰጠው ሲሆን፣ ባለፈው ማክሰኞ ሰኔ 4 ቀን 2016 ዓ.ም. ለሕዝብ ተወካዮች ምክር ቤት ቀርቦ የመጀመሪያ ንባብ ተካሂዶበታል።

የረቂቁ ስያሜ ‹‹የንብረት ማስመለስ አዋጅ›› እንዲሆን የተመረጠበት ምክንያት ወንጀል የሚለው ቃል ከገባ ምንጩ ያልታወቀ ሀብትን፣ እንዲሁም ወንጀልን ማቋቋም አስፈላጊ ሳይሆን ሲቀርና በወንጀል ኃላፊነት የማይረጋገጡ ንብረቶች በሚኖሩበት ወቅት ንብረቶችን ለማስመለስ አያስችልም ተብሎ በመታመኑ እንደሆነ ረቂቅ አዋጁን ለማብራራት የቀረበው አባሪ ሰነድ ያስረዳል።

የረቂቅ አዋጁ ድንጋጌዎችና አባሪ የተደረገው ማብራሪያ ሰነድ እንደሚያስረዱትም፣ መንግሥት ንብረትን ለማስመለስ ሲል በሦስት ዋና ዋና መንገዶች ንብረቶችን ሊወርስ ይችላል። እነዚህም መንገዶች፣ ‹‹ምንጩ ያልታወቀ ንብረት መውረስ››፣ ‹‹በጥፋተኝነት ላይ ያልተመሠረተ መውረስ›› እና ‹‹በጥፋተኝነት ላይ የተመሠረተ›› መውረስ ናቸው።

በረቂቅ አዋጁ ድንጋጌ መሠረት፣ ማንኛውም ሰው ምንጩ ያልታወቀ ንብረት አፍርቷል ተብሎ ንብረቱ ሊወረስ የሚችለው፣ ግለሰቡ ያለው ንብረት ወይም የኑሮ ደረጃው አሁን ባለበት ወይም አስቀድሞ በነበረበት ሥራ ወይም በሌላ መንገድ ከሚያገኘው ወይም ሲያገኝ ከነበረው ሕጋዊ ገቢ ጋር የማይመጣጠን ሲሆንና የንብረቱን ወይም የኑሮ ደረጃውን ምንጭ በተመለከተ ምክንያታዊ የሆነ የወንጀል ጥርጣሬ ሲኖር ነው። 

ይህ ሁኔታ መኖሩ ሲታወቅ ወይም ዓቃቤ ሕግ ምክንያታዊ ጥርጣሬ ሲኖረው የፍትሐ ብሔር ክስ መመሥረት የሚችል ሲሆን፣ ክሱ የቀረበበት ሰው ንብረቱ ወይም የኑሮ ደረጃው በሕጋዊ መንገድ የተገኘ መሆኑን ጉዳዩን ለሚመለከተው ፍርድ ቤት አስረድቶ ማረጋገጥ እንደሚኖርበት ረቂቅ አዋጁ ድንጋጌ ያመለክታል። 

ይህም ማለት ምንጩ ያልታወቀ ንብረት መኖሩን ለፍርድ ቤት የማስረዳት ወይም የማረጋጥ ሸክም የከሳሽ ዓቃቢ ሕግ ሳይሆን ምንጩ ያልታወቀ ንብረት አለው ተብሎ የተጠረጠረው ግለሰብ ወይም ሕጋዊ ሰው እንደሚሆን የረቂቅ አዋጁ ድንጋጌዎች ያመለክታሉ።

ረቂቅ አዋጁን ለማብራራት የቀረበው አባሪ ሰነድም ንብረት ማስመለስና መውረስ የሚችልባቸውን ሁኔታዎች የሚዘረዝሩ አንቀጾችን ይዟል። በዚህም መሠረት ምንጩ ያልታወቀ ንብረት የሚወረስበትን ሁኔታ አስመልክቶ የሚከተለውን ማብራሪያ አስቀምጧል።

‹‹ምንጩ ያልታወቀ ንብረት አፍርቷል ተብሎ የተጠረጠረ ሰው፣ ንብረቱን ያፈራው ከውጪ በተላከለት ገንዘብ ነው የሚል ከሆነ፣ ግለሰቡ ገንዘቡ በሕጋዊ መንገድ በባንክ ሥርዓት ውስጥ ያለፉ ግብይቶች ወይም ክፍያዎች ስለመሆናቸው በተገቢው የባንክ ደረሰኝ  አስደግፎ ማቅረብ የሚገባው ሲሆን፣ ከዚህ ውጪ ያለው ግን እንደ ምንጩ ያልታወቀ ገቢ ተደርጎ የሚቆጠርና የሚወረስ ይሆናል››።

ምንጩ ያልታወቀ ንብረት ክስ በሚቀርብበት ጊዜና የንብረቱ የገንዘብ መጠን በአዋጁ አንቀጽ 8 ላይ የተደነገገ ሲሆን፣ ክስ የሚቀርብበት ጊዜን አስመልክቶም አዋጁ ከሚፀድቅበት ጊዜ አንስቶ ወደ ኃላ 10 ዓመት ተመልሶ ተፈጻሚ እንደሚሆን ረቂቅ አዋጁ ይጠቅሳል። 

አዋጁ ወደኋላ 10 ዓመት ተመልሶ ተፈጻሚ በሚሆንበት ወቅት ምንጩ ያልታወቀ ንብረትን ለመክሰስ መሠረት የሚሆነው ዝቅተኛ የገንዘብ መጠን አምስት ሚሊዮን ብር ሲሆን፣ አዋጁ ሥራ ላይ ከዋለ በኋላ ምንጩ ያልታወቀ ንብረት ተጠያቂነት ያለ ምንም የገንዘብ መጠን ተፈጻሚ እንደሚደረግ የረቂቅ አዋጁ ድንጋጌዎች ያመለክታሉ።

ምንጩ ያልታወቀ ንብረት አፍርቷል ተብሎ በዓቃቤ ሕግ የተጠረጠረ ማንኛውም ሰው የንብረቱን ምንጭ እንዲያስረዳ በዓቃቤ ሕግ የጽሑፍ ጥያቄ እንደሚቀርብለት የሚገልጸው ረቂቅ አዋጁ፣ ይህ ጥያቄ የደረሰው ማንኛውም ሰው ያለውን ማንኛውንም የንብረት ዝርዝርና የተገኘበትን አግባብ የሚያሳይ መግለጫና ዝርዝር ማስረጃዎችን በማያያዝ በአንድ ወር ጊዜ ውስጥ በጽሑፍ ለዓቃቤ ሕግ ማቅረብ እንዳለበት ያመለክታል።

የንብረቱን ምንጭ እንዲያስረዳ የተጠየቀው ሰው የንብረቱን ምንጭ ለማስረዳት የሚያቀርበው ማስረጃ ሕጋዊ መሆን እንዳለበትም ተደንግጓል።

ማስረጃዎችን ለማቅረብ የተመለከተው የአንድ ወር የጊዜ ገደብ አስገዳጅ ሁኔታ ሲኖር ለዓቃቤ ሕግ በሚቀርብ አቤቱታ ሊራዘም እንደሚችል፣ ሆኖም የጊዜ ገደቡ ከስድስት ወራት በላይ እንደማይበልጥ ሪቂቁ ያመለክታል።

ምንጩ ያልታወቀ ንብረት ከሚወረስባቸው መንገዶች በተጨማሪ ‹‹በጥፋተኝነት ላይ ያልተመሠረተ›› የንብረት መውረስ የሚፈጸምባቸው ድንጋጌዎችም በረቂቅ አዋጁ ተካተዋል። ረቂቅ አዋጁ በሰጠው ትርጓሜ መሠረት ‹‹በጥፋተኝነት ላይ ያልተመሠረተ መውረስ›› ማለት በማንኛውም ዓይነት ወንጀል በፍርድ ቤት ውሳኔ ጥፋተኛ ባይባልም፣ በረቂቅ አዋጁ በተቀመጡ ድንጋጌዎች መሠረት የሚከናወን የንብረት መውረስ ነው።

በዚህም መሠረት በወንጀል ክስ የጥፋተኝነት ውሳኔ ባይሰጥበትም ከወንጀል ድርጊቱ የንብረት ጥቅም አግኝቷል ተብሎ የተጠረጠረ ማንኛውም ሰው ላይ ዓቃቤ ሕግ የንብረት መውረስ ማመልከቻ ለፍርድ ቤት ሊያቀርብበት እንደሚችል ረቂቅ ድንጋጌው ያመለክታል።

በጥፋተኝነት ላይ ያልተመሠረተ የንብረት መውረስ ማመልከቻ ሊቀርብ የሚችልባቸው ሁኔታዎች በረቂቅ አዋጁ የተዘረዘሩ ሲሆን፣ ከእነዚህም መካከል አንዱ በወንጀል ድርጊት የተጠረጠረው ወይም የተከሰሰው ሰው ሲሞት፣ ሲያመልጥና ሲጠፋ ወይም ወንጀል ፈጻሚው ሳይታወቅ ሲቀር ነው።

እንዲሁም በይርጋ ምክንያት የወንጀል ጥፋተኝነት ውሳኔ ማሰጠት ሳይቻል ሲቀር፣ የተገኘው ማስረጃ በወንጀል ክስ የጥፋተኝነት ውሳኔ ለማሰጠት የሚያስችል የማስረጃ ምዘና መሥፈርትን የማያሟላ ከሆነ፣ ከወንጀል ድርጊቱ ጥቅም ስለመገኘቱ ምክንያታዊ ጥርጣሬ ሲኖር፣ ተከሳሹ ምሕረት ሲደረግለት፣ የቀረበበት ክስ በማንኛውም ምክንያት ሲቋረጥ፣ ተጠርጣሪው በወንጀል ያለ መከሰስ መብት ያለው እንደሆነ በጥፋተኝነት ላይ ያልተመሠረተ የንብረት መውረስ ክስ ሊቀርብ ይችላል።

በተጨማሪም የጥፋተኝነት ውሳኔ ከተሰጠበት የወንጀል ድርጊት ጋር በቀጥታም ሆነ በተዘዋዋሪ የሚገናኝና በሦስተኛ ወገን ይዞታ ወይም ባለቤትነት ሥር የሚገኝ ንብረት ሲሆን፣ በጥፋተኝነት ላይ ያልተመሠረተ የንብረት መውረስ ክስ ሊቀርብ እንደሚችል ረቂቅ አዋጁ ያመለክታል።

የወንጀል ቅጣቱ በይቅርታ ወይም በምሕረት ቀሪ የተደረገለት፣ የተገደበለት ወይም በአመክሮ የተለቀቀ ማንኛውም ሰው፣ ይህንን ሁኔታ ከወንጀል ድርጊቱ የተገኘውን ንብረት ለመውረስ ለሚቀርብበት ክስ መቃወሚያ አድርጎ ማቅረብ እንደማይችልም ረቂቁ ያመለክታል።

የሕዝብ ተወካዮች ምክር ቤት በዚህ ረቂቅ አዋጅ ላይ ባለፈው ማክሰኞ የመጀመሪያ ንባብ (ውይይት) ባካሄደበት ወቅት ሁለት የምክር ቤት አባላት ብቻ አስተያየት የሰጡ ሲሆን፣ አንደኛው አስተያየት ረቂቅ አዋጁ በፍጥነት ፀድቆ ሥራ ላይ እንዲውል የሚጠይቅ ነው። 

ይሁን እንጂ ረቂቅ አዋጁን ለዝርዝር ዕይታ እንዲመራ ድምፅ በተሰጠበት ወቅት ሁለት የምክር ቤት አባላት የተቃውሞ ድምፅ ሰጥተው ረቂቁ በዝርዝር እንዲታይ ለሕግና ፍትሕ ጉዳዮች ቋሚ ኮሚቴ ተመርቷል።

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