NEW: Somali Leader Makes Stunning Admission On His Nation’s ‘Fraud Pipeline’ In America

A Somali lawmaker says his country’s government operates as a “fraud pipeline,” funneling U.S. taxpayer dollars meant for aid, health care, and child care into one of the poorest and most corrupt nations on the planet.

Dr. Abdillahi Hashi Abib, a sitting member of Somalia’s Parliament and its Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Daily Caller that corruption now being uncovered in Minnesota and across the U.S. did not arise overnight. He said it is the downstream result of Somalia’s deeply entrenched culture of graft.

Abib, speaking exclusively to the Caller, said his conclusions are based on both his firsthand experience inside Somalia’s government and extensive numerical data tied to alleged fraud involving senior political figures.

He said he has repeatedly tried to share that data with U.S. agencies but has been ignored as the problem continues to grow, only recently breaking into public view through investigations and media reports. Even those disclosures, he said, reflect only a small slice of what he has warned U.S. officials about for years.

Abib also outlined what he called a “roadmap” he has presented to U.S. agencies, aimed at stopping Somali-U.S. tax dollar theft at its source by rebuilding Somalia’s government while aligning with President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda.

In a 2023 letter detailing what Abib described as a “sample of Somalia government fraud,” a parliamentary committee compiled more than 400 gigabytes of data drawn from itemized expenditures between July 2022 and June 2023. The report accuses Somalia’s executive branch of widespread illegal spending.

Dr. Abdullahi Hashi Abib

Somalia’s annual GDP per capita is roughly $600, according to World Bank Group data.

The executive branch allegedly drained public funds through cash withdrawals with no receipts, inflated travel expenses and purchases of unnecessary items, including furniture, vehicles and office space, bought at inflated prices from family-owned businesses without public bids. The report also cites monthly payments to allegedly “fake” senior advisers and advisory firms.

The letter further accuses the general manager of the Central Bank of Somalia of tax evasion, alleging he reclassified roughly a quarter of his salary as bonuses to avoid paying taxes.

“As you are undoubtedly aware, corruption poses a significant threat to global economic growth, hinders development, undermines democracy, and provides fertile ground for criminal and terrorist activities,” the 2023 letter states, while faulting the Biden-Harris administration for failing to hold Somalia’s leadership accountable.

In a follow-up letter sent Sunday to the auditor general, Abib expanded on what he called the “systemic looting of humanitarian aid funded overwhelmingly by U.S. taxpayers.”

More than $3.5 billion has been allocated to humanitarian assistance in Somalia by international partners, with about 90% coming from the United States, which the letter described as a direct “defrauding of U.S. taxpayers.”

Funds meant for humanitarian relief “have been captured and monetized” by family-run enterprises, according to the letter. It alleges that three brothers of the chairman of the Somali Disaster Management Agency received monthly “consultancy fees” registered under their wives’ names.

Those payments totaled $1.53 million over the past 36 months, effectively turning the agency into a “family-controlled criminal enterprise,” the letter said.

“This is not incidental nepotism. It is deliberate structural capture, designed to defeat oversight and facilitate theft,” the letter states.

The chairman is accused of buying multiple properties, accumulating luxury vehicles and funding frequent international travel, despite being “publicly known in 2022 to lack even the personal means to purchase a cup of coffee.”

“The Relief Department, which should be the last line of defense for starving citizens, has become the engine of food aid theft,” Abib wrote.

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