{"schemaVersion":"case-card-export-v1","frozenRecordSchemaVersion":"frozen-decision-record-v1","product":"Trace-li","slug":"ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments","title":"IFRC Ebola response: the payment needs an explanation","lede":"IFRC disclosed CHF 354,500 in undocumented and unjustified supplier payments in its Guinea Ebola response. This research fixture asks what would let a reviewer explain a payment; it is not a frozen desk record.","caseId":"case:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments","recordKind":"fixture","publicationState":"awaiting_founder_freeze","statusLabel":"Fixture · awaiting founder freeze","packScope":"finding-slice","packsStamped":false,"packsInForce":[{"packId":"ifrc-public-source-review","version":"research-2026-10-08","name":"Trace-li IFRC case review questions (proposed)"}],"readiness":null,"readinessNote":"Not issued. 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Historical record, not a current finding."},"provenance":{"sourceFileHash":"acf3202b9e44252a2e5e6b4402799eab218390b6f1375e02dfc126da5299d8b4","sourceRef":{"kind":"page","id":"source:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:research.source_status","label":"Printed p. 12 (PDF p. 13), note 9a: Guinea"},"extractedAt":"2026-10-08T12:31:32.758Z","confidence":1,"verificationMethod":"unverified"}},{"fieldId":"field:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:research.payment_finding","entityKind":"evidence","entityId":"evidence:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:research.payment_finding","key":"research.payment_finding","value":{"state":"present","value":"CHF 354,500 in supplier payments lacked documentation and justification; included within approximately CHF 1.5 million of confirmed and at-risk losses in Guinea."},"provenance":{"sourceFileHash":"acf3202b9e44252a2e5e6b4402799eab218390b6f1375e02dfc126da5299d8b4","sourceRef":{"kind":"page","id":"source:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:research.payment_finding","label":"Printed p. 12 (PDF p. 13), note 9a: Guinea"},"extractedAt":"2026-10-08T12:31:32.758Z","confidence":1,"verificationMethod":"unverified"}},{"fieldId":"field:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:procurement.supplier_payment_basis","entityKind":"evidence","entityId":"evidence:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:procurement.supplier_payment_basis","key":"procurement.supplier_payment_basis","value":{"state":"missing","reason":"The financial note reports the payment deficiency but does not supply transaction-level supporting documents or authorizations. 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It distinguishes confirmed and at-risk losses rather than presenting every amount as proven theft.","sourceLabel":"Printed p. 12 (PDF p. 13), note 9a: Guinea"}],"narrative":{"officialRecord":"The Guinea Ebola response needed operational services; IFRC later had to account for the payments behind them. This card follows the financial disclosure, not an imagined procurement officer or a reconstructed tender.","whatWasMissing":"IFRC reported supplier payments without documentation or justification, leaving a concrete question about what supported payment. The public note does not identify which approval or acceptance document was absent for each transaction.","whatFollowed":"The disclosed amount was recorded as a loss in the 2016 statements; the Guinea case remained with local investigators at the date of the 2019 report. A later recovery or final legal outcome was not established in the sources reviewed for this card.","assuranceQuestion":"Can a reviewer open the approved service, price basis, supporting evidence, and payment authorization without asking the original team to reconstruct them?","whereTraceLiFits":"This fixture proposes a small review trail from the payment back to its supporting decision. The questions are Trace-li analysis, not an IFRC-approved policy pack or an assessment of a live award. A complete document trail still needs substantive human review."},"patternTicketIds":["pt:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:payment-basis","pt:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:service-acceptance"],"patternTickets":[{"schemaVersion":"pattern-ticket-v1","ticketId":"pt:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:payment-basis","title":"Supplier payment basis and supporting documents","statement":"Proposed review question: can the reviewer follow a supplier payment to its approved service, price, supporting documents, and authorization? An unpublished document is distinct from evidence that it never existed.","status":"stub","packId":"ifrc-public-source-review","ruleId":null,"fieldKey":"procurement.supplier_payment_basis","sourceCaseSlugs":["ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments"]},{"schemaVersion":"pattern-ticket-v1","ticketId":"pt:ifrc-ebola-supplier-payments:service-acceptance","title":"Service completion and acceptance record","statement":"Proposed review question: who confirmed the service was delivered, and where is the dated acceptance evidence? 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Source-file hash only; not a desk freeze."},"redaction":{"policyId":"case-card-redaction-v1","public":["Historical institutional source, its scope and procedural status, and proposed review questions"],"withheld":["Personal and supplier identities","Underlying transaction records, customer data, and any invented award chronology","Freeze hashes and readiness: no founder-confirmed freeze exists"]},"claimBoundary":"IFRC is the subject and source of this historical financial disclosure, not a Trace-li customer or endorser. The CHF 354,500 is included within the wider Guinea amount, not additional to it. This card does not say Trace-li prevents fraud. Missing from this research packet does not mean absent from every original file. No frozen judgment or current institutional risk rating is issued."}