Former chief chairman of ‘METECH’ is escorted by police to the courthouse in Addis Ababa. The ex-leader arrived in court to face a barrage of charges related to 37 billion ETB of a state fund that allegedly ended up waste and in his and his collaborator's bank account.

The sweeping high-profile arrest carried out in recent days on a suspicion of corruption, and a months-long investigation into misdoings under the previous government.

Attorney General Berhanu Tsegaye told the median that some of those arrested in “relation to an investigation into abuse of power, criminal breach of trust and money laundering, beatings, forced confessions, sodomy, rape, electrocution and even killings.