Kenya: It’s a goldmine for crooks selling luxury cars using forged papers
28th December 2020
Kenya: It’s a goldmine for crooks selling luxury cars using forged papers
Minting millions of shillings from sale of smuggled cars in Nairobi is now as easy as buying candy on the streets. All it takes is a communion of crooked car dealers, conniving State agents and cross-border criminal networks with tentacles in prison and voila! a thriving empire is born. This… Read More
Ex-Tunisian presidential candidate jailed in financial case
25th December 2020
Ex-Tunisian presidential candidate jailed in financial case
AP — Former Tunisian presidential candidate and media mogul Nabil Karoui has been arrested on charges of money laundering and tax evasion, a Tunis court spokesman said on Thursday. Karoui spent most of last year’s presidential campaign in jail for the same charges, which he called politically… Read More
Uganda detains leading lawyer for LGBT rights on money-laundering charges
24th December 2020
Uganda detains leading lawyer for LGBT rights on money-laundering charges
Security agencies in Uganda have arrested a prominent human rights lawyer over alleged money laundering. Nicholas Opiyo, known for representing LGBTQ+ people, was arrested in a restaurant in the capital, Kampala, on Tuesday by plainclothes security and financial intelligence officers. Opiyo, executive director of rights organisation Chapter Four Uganda,… Read More
Transparency International advises UK financial institutions to withdraw from Agyapa deal
24th December 2020
Transparency International advises UK financial institutions to withdraw from Agyapa deal
Transparency International has urged the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to review the Government of Ghana’s application to list Agyapa Royalties Limited on the London Stock Exchange and reject the listing if corruption concerns are not satisfactorily addressed. According to a message cited by GhanaWeb on Transparency International’s website dated… Read More
Largest confiscation of smuggled monkeys sheds light on African trafficking network
23rd December 2020
Largest confiscation of smuggled monkeys sheds light on African trafficking network
During a routine border check in early September, Zimbabwean officials confiscated 25 juvenile monkeys found in cages in the back of a truck entering the country from Zambia and bound for South Africa. The officials, with the Chirundu Anti-Poaching Project, a joint operation between Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority… Read More
Italian ‘Casanova’ online gang broken up in Turin
22nd December 2020
Italian ‘Casanova’ online gang broken up in Turin
A gang of fraudsters who won their way into women’s hearts posing as pilots, sea captains, Interpol officials and military personnel has been broken up after a three-year operation, Italian police say. “Operation Casanova” targeted 19 suspects behind an online dating scam in which victims were promised love and marriage… Read More
Norwegian bank in hot water over Fishrot
17th December 2020
Norwegian bank in hot water over Fishrot
Norway’s largest bank, DNB, ended its relationship with Icelandic seafood company Samherji after the fishing company gave what the bank deemed inadequate explanations of payments to three offshore companies and a company owned by the son-in-law of Namibia’s former fisheries minister. Documents filed in the Windhoek High Court shed new… Read More
Bank Documents Expose How Buhari’s Ally Isa Funtua Received N840m Windfall From FIRS
16th December 2020
Bank Documents Expose How Buhari’s Ally Isa Funtua Received N840m Windfall From FIRS
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has been caught transferring public funds to Isa Funtua, a long-time political associate of President Muhammadu Buhari, financial records obtained by Peoples Gazette showed. Using his company Bulet International Nigeria Limited, a small-scale construction firm out of Kaduna, Mr. Funtua received N840 million in… Read More
U.S. lifts Sudan’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism
15th December 2020
U.S. lifts Sudan’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism
The United States formally rescinded Sudan’s status as a state sponsor of terrorism on Monday, removing the biggest barrier to the African country’s access to international lending institutions and economic development. Sudan was designated as a state sponsor of terrorism in 1993, in part for its support of militant… Read More
UK Blacklists Gambia’s Ex-President, Nine Others Accused of Human Rights Abuses
11th December 2020
UK Blacklists Gambia’s Ex-President, Nine Others Accused of Human Rights Abuses
Britain on Thursday slapped sanctions on The Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh as it widened travel bans and economic sanctions for human rights abuses worldwide, AFP reports. The former dictator, whose election defeat to Adama Barrow in December 2016 forced him to flee, was one of three from the West… Read More
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