JOHANNESBURG: The United Nations commission on human rights in South Sudan says a staggering $36 million has been misappropriated by government officials and senior politicians since 2016 as widespread corruption continues to drain the worlds youngest nation.
It is worth noting this is just what we were able to trace and may not reflect the whole picture, the commissions chair, Yasmin Sooka, told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday.
She noted brazen embezzlement in the illicit flows from South Sudans finance ministry and National Revenue Authority.
Shockingly, these South Sudanese bodies have been aided and abetted in these crimes by a number of international corporations and multinational banks, Sooka said, but not naming names. Some of this money has been laundered through the purchase of properties abroad….