- Cash Grab, a three-year investigation into bank credit lines, alleges that South Sudanese President Salva Kiir’s family and his inner circle of military generals benefited from so-called briefcase companies which ultimately deprived children and communities across the country of fuel, food and medicine.
- The report claims that funds to the tune of around $1 billion (€1.03 billion) disappeared into a maze of international shell companies that never provided any goods or services, leaving people to die as hospitals were gutted of medicine and neonatal ward generators went cold.
- “there are measures that can be taken to promote transparency and accountability in the allocation of public funds and to help ensure that the people of South Sudan are not cheated on this scale again,” the report concludes.
South Sudan’s ruling elite probed for $1B ‘scam’ 11.10.2022
