Uganda, April 8 -- Uganda Airlines paid $262,345.64 (about Shs1b) to a fraudulently created account in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during the 2022/23 financial year, a new government audit shows.

The Office of the Auditor General, during its evaluation of the airline's operations, discovered that Uganda's flag carrier had improperly sent the aforesaid amount of money to an unidentified account under the DRC's Civil Aviation Authority's name.

Officials from the airline, however, point out that the Auditor General (AG), Mr John Muwanga, could have misunderstood the circumstances in which this transaction occurred and that the error came from the DRC's civil aviation authority.

"We were supposed to send some payments to the...