The Public Sector Employees' Registration Committee of the Administrative Control Authority has suspended the salaries of some 28,000 employees because of duplication of functions in state entities and the failure of public bodies to follow-up the financial files of their employees.

The committee revealed in its report that around 6,000 employees have post duplication along with their work in the Ministry of Defence, while 2002 staff member of them have regularized their situation last year.

The value of salaries paid to offending employees has exceeded 19 million dinars, as well as several bank accounts of violators have been frozen, according to the report.

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