by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 30, 2020 | Africa, Anti-Corruption |
Every year, an estimated $88.6 billion, equivalent to 3.7% of Africa’s GDP, leaves the continent as illicit capital flight, according to UNCTAD’s Economic Development in Africa Report 2020. Illicit financial flows (IFFs) are movements of money and assets across...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 30, 2020 | Africa, Anti-Corruption |
Huge sums of money flowing out of Africa through corrupt practices and illegal means are robbing the continent of billions of dollars and hampering efforts aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, a new UN report said. The report by the United Nations...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 30, 2020 | Africa, Cyber Risk |
Deputies from Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s party on Monday proposed a law that would make spreading fake news on social media punishable by up to four years in prison, government sources said. The draft bill would allow sentences of two to four years for “the...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 30, 2020 | Africa, Cyber Risk |
French shipping giant CMA CGM has provided an updated on the malware attack that forced the group to shut down “periphery” servers to prevent it from spreading. In today’s update, CMA CGM said it had shut all external accesses to their network and computer...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 30, 2020 | Africa, Anti- Money Laundering |
New guidance from the FATF has been welcomed by the crypto industry, despite the compliance challenges it presents, writes Nathan Smale at Emfarsis. Members of the cryptocurrency industry have welcomed new guidance from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) outlining...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 30, 2020 | Africa, Governance and Ethics |
Retailers have invited the capital markets regulator and corporate governance experts to help streamline management within their operations to prevent recurring troubles. Speaking on the backdrop of ongoing boardroom scuffles at Tuskys, the Retail Traders Association...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 30, 2020 | Africa, Governance and Ethics |
As the COVID-19 crisis continues its relentless spread, questions have been raised about the availability and reliability of African data on the pandemic. Despite the catastrophic scenarios envisaged by some commentators, who foresaw large numbers of Africans dying in...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 29, 2020 | Africa, Anti-Corruption |
On Thursday 17 September, Lawyers for Human Rights, the Scalabrini Centre and Corruption Watch launched a report titled “Costly protection: corruption in South Africa’s asylum system”. They also hosted a discussion moderated by Sharon Ekambaram from Lawyers for Human...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 29, 2020 | Africa, Governance and Ethics |
The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (Saica) has dedicated the month of October to ethics due to the Global Ethics Day being on October 21. The October edition of the Accountancy South Africa magazine will contain a series of ethics-related articles...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 29, 2020 | Africa, Anti- Money Laundering |
Leading the call for effective global action against Illicit Financial Flows (IFF) and related vices, which is negatively impacting progress in developing countries especially in Africa, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN has called for an overhaul of the international...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 28, 2020 | Africa, Anti-Corruption |
Really? Carlos Manuel de São Vicente is currently a jailbird. On September 23 he was remanded in custody in Viana prison (Luanda) awaiting trial, where conditions might soon make him forget his ill-gotten billions. One by one, the bit-part players in the Dos Santos...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 28, 2020 | Africa, Governance and Ethics |
After the novel coronavirus first appeared in Africa in late February, Ghana’s government decided it would take no chances. Ghanaian citizens were soon put under lockdown, and travel between major cities was banned. Then President Nana Akufo-Addo announced the closure...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 28, 2020 | Africa, Anti- Money Laundering |
South Africa’s courts were recently asked to rule on whether a financial institution, a bank, can freeze or restrict a client’s access to an account because they did not properly identify themselves. In an analysis of the case, Tracy Janse van Rensburg, director at...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 27, 2020 | Africa, Anti-Corruption |
Lamine Diack, the former president of the IAAF, what is now World Athletics, was on Wednesday sentenced to prison and fined after being found guilty of corruption by a court in France. The court handed Diack a four-year prison sentence, two years of which are...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 26, 2020 | Africa, Anti- Money Laundering |
An aide to Tanzanian presidential candidate for Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT-Wazalendo) is being held by the police for questioning on money laundering allegations. Jerome Luanda, and aide to Bernard Membe, was arrested on Tuesday at the Julius Nyerere...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 25, 2020 | Africa, Asia, North America |
When COVID-19 hit prisons around the world, it entered overcrowded, insalubrious, and forgotten places in which women are a minority and face specific risks. Women represent between two and 10 percent of the world’s incarcerated population, but their numbers are...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 25, 2020 | Africa, Anti-Corruption |
Coronavirus: Global Covid-19 infections have hit 32 million confirmed, with the death toll reaching 978,000. In South Africa, there have been 1,861 new cases, taking the total reported to 667,049. Deaths have reached 16,283 (an increase of 77), while recoveries have...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 25, 2020 | Africa, Anti-Corruption |
Dr John Nkengasong, the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control is not happy about repeated reports of corruption in procurement of Personal Protective Equipment Speaking to the investigation currently underway in South Africa, after PPE deals worth over $299m...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 25, 2020 | Africa, Middle East |
Over the past five years, Western countries’ exports made up the bulk of weapons delivered to the Middle East and North Africa, according to a report published this week by the Washington-based Center for International Policy (CIP). The US leads the way, with a...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 24, 2020 | Africa, Anti-Corruption |
Bribery, brutality and abuse of power are some of the key trends uncovered within the police service in the latest analysis published by Corruption Watch. The organisation released its 2020 edition of the Analysis of Corruption Trends (ACT) report on Tuesday. It...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 24, 2020 | Africa, Governance and Ethics |
Tanzanian lawyer and former president of the mainland bar association Fatma Karume has been removed from the roll of advocates, meaning she can no longer practice law. The decision to disbar her was announced on Wednesday by the Tanganyika Law Society (TLS) Ethics...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 24, 2020 | Africa, Governance and Ethics |
In this first feature on environmental compliance and good governance, I discuss the broad implications for golf of the term “governance” with Alistair Collier, whose legal background is eclectic. It includes specialising in the fields of social security and...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 24, 2020 | Africa, Anti- Money Laundering, Europe |
The Estonian banker was frantic: A whistleblower inside the bank suspected nine anonymous companies — all registered in the United Kingdom — of serious financial crimes and was threatening to go to authorities. “The whistleblower demands ALL OF THESE CLIENTS …...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 24, 2020 | Africa, Anti- Money Laundering, Middle East |
After three years of digging, investigators in the United States had accumulated a mountain of evidence that they believed sealed the case against Kaloti Jewellery Group, one of the largest gold traders and refiners in the world. The Dubai-based conglomerate had...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 24, 2020 | Africa, Cyber Risk, North America |
Seven years ago, Burger King’s Twitter account was hacked. The outcome was harmless enough — its profile picture was replaced with the McDonald’s logo, its display name changed to “McDonald’s” and its biography altered to “Just got sold to McDonalds because the...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 23, 2020 | Africa |
Civil society group Corruption Watch has published its latest corruption trends report based on accounts it has received from the start of the year until the end of June. The bulk of these cases, almost 55%, were gathered after the national state of disaster was...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 23, 2020 | Africa, Anti-Corruption |
Corruption has become so overwhelming in South Africa that some in our midst have given up reading newspapers or watching TV. Coupled with the other criminal acts and unemployment, we are such a depressed society in South Africa that we tend to ask each other whether...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 23, 2020 | Africa, Governance and Ethics |
Despite these challenges, South Africa and Egypt are among the countries which have begun clinical trials of possible vaccines. Others are Brazil, the USA, and the UK. In Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank, tweeted that the bank was ready to offer...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 23, 2020 | Africa, Anti- Money Laundering, Europe |
Football clubs will have to step up internal controls amid growing attention to criminal activity in sports by anti-money laundering agencies. The Malta Football Association is working on a framework to introduce more accountability and corporate oversight in top-tier...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 23, 2020 | Africa, Anti- Money Laundering |
After three years of digging, investigators in the United States had accumulated a mountain of evidence that they believed sealed the case against Kaloti Jewellery Group, one of the largest gold traders and refiners in the world. The Dubai-based conglomerate had...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 23, 2020 | Africa, Security Risks |
In the past, children were mostly banned from active participation in wars. But that changed in the 20th century, when children were used in national and colonial liberation conflicts, write Mia Bloom and John Horgan of Georgia State University in their book “Small...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 22, 2020 | Africa |
Of the roughly 28.6 million cases of COVID-19 logged by the World Health Organization, only 1.1 million are in Africa, 4 percent of the global total. The relatively low number of cases, along with a similarly low figure for coronavirus deaths, has researchers stumped....
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 22, 2020 | Africa, Anti-Corruption |
| THE INDEPENDENT | Doctors have gone on strike over a lack of protective equipment, and protesters have taken to the streets in anger at the abuse of medical funds, many wearing T-shirts emblazoned with #arrestCovidthieves. Public uproar in Kenya in recent weeks has...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 22, 2020 | Africa, Governance and Ethics |
DURBAN – The Minister for the Public Service and Administration, Senzo Mchunu, has directed government departments to ensure that officials enrol for the compulsory Ethics in the Public Service Online Course offered by the National School of Government (NSG)....
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 22, 2020 | Africa, Governance and Ethics |
To kick off the Bioethics and Medical Humanities Speakers series hosted by The Kegley Institute of Ethics (KIE) in partnership with Kaiser Permanente, the organizations collaborated to host a digital informational event on Sept. 10. The event was hosted to help...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 21, 2020 | Africa, Anti-Corruption |
An explosive report by Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter to the Eskom board reveals Eskom’s position in respect of unproven allegations of corruption, nepotism and victimisation orchestrated against chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer on social media and other platforms....
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 21, 2020 | Africa, Security Risks |
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia has charged its most prominent opposition figure, Jawar Mohammed, and 23 others with terrorism-related offenses, telecom fraud and other crimes, the attorney general’s office announced Saturday. They could face life in prison if...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 21, 2020 | Africa, Governance and Ethics |
DURBAN – The Minister for the Public Service and Administration, Senzo Mchunu, has directed government departments to ensure that officials enrol for the compulsory Ethics in the Public Service Online Course offered by the National School of Government (NSG)....
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 21, 2020 | Africa, Anti- Money Laundering |
An aide to Tanzanian presidential candidate for Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT-Wazalendo) is being held by the police for questioning on money laundering allegations. Jerome Luanda, and aide to Bernard Membe, was arrested on Tuesday at the Julius Nyerere...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 18, 2020 | Africa, Anti-Corruption |
September 16 – yesterday – marked the 45th year of Independence for Papua New Guinea. It also marked just over a year and three months since I was appointed Minister for Police, following the collapse of the O’Neill government. I note many people are asking why I am...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 18, 2020 | Africa, Governance and Ethics |
On Tuesday 15 September, Wits University resumed vaccinating participants in the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trial after it was given the go-ahead by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority and two ethics committees. While the pause caused a delay in the...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 18, 2020 | Africa, Anti- Money Laundering |
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has made a submission to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on how a Gupta-linked grouping allegedly obtained a payoff of R189.24 million – with R142 million of this going to the Guptas – on an unusually expensive...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 18, 2020 | Africa, Security Risks |
In the past, children were mostly banned from active participation in wars. But that changed in the 20th century, when children were used in national and colonial liberation conflicts, write Mia Bloom and John Horgan of Georgia State University in their book “Small...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 17, 2020 | Africa, Anti-Corruption |
The National Gambling Board of South Africa has moved to quash debates over the status of igaming within the country, clarifying that the activity remains illegal and carries with it severe penalties. Noting rising concern that “the issue of the legality of online or...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 17, 2020 | Africa, Anti-Corruption |
CAPE TOWN – Church leaders across the nation took a stand on Tuesday, staging silent protests in major cities against COVID-19 corruption. In Cape Town, members of the clergy who are part of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) gathered at St Georges...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 17, 2020 | Africa, Anti-Corruption |
An unprecedented economic recovery plan set to be unveiled by South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa focuses on fighting graft, encouraging mining investment and boosting infrastructure investment. The plan was negotiated between government, labor unions and...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 17, 2020 | Africa, Governance and Ethics |
Public service and administration minister Senzo Mchunu has directed government departments to ensure that officials enrol for the compulsory “Ethics in the Public Service” online course offered by the National School of Government (NSG). This comes amid...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 17, 2020 | Africa, Anti- Money Laundering |
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has made a submission to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on how a Gupta-linked grouping allegedly obtained a payoff of R189.24 million – with R142 million of this going to the Guptas – on an unusually expensive...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 17, 2020 | Africa, Cyber Risk |
The threat of attack on digital infrastructure owned by Africa-based enterprises has increased during the COVID-19 era, executives said during a virtual briefing on Wednesday. Sizwe Zikhali, a senior Solution Architect at Microsoft, said that cybercriminals escalated...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 17, 2020 | Africa, Security Risks |
Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi will remain in police custody for another seven days. Sudi had already spent two days behind bars at the Nakuru Central police station pending a bail application ruling. Delivering his ruling on a miscellaneous application by the prosecution...
