News / / 09.14.16

Guardian: South Sudanese general paid $1.5m for Melbourne home, says war profiteering report

A former South Sudanese army general has been thrown into the spotlight after it was revealed he paid $1.5m for a home in Melbourne’s south-east despite earning just A$60,000 a year.

The revelation comes in the first report released by the Sentry, an investigative organisation founded by the US actor George Clooney and the rights activist John Prendergast to track and analyse how armed conflict and atrocities are financed.

The report accuses senior officials on modest salaries in South Sudan of profiteering from the civil war.

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