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05.31.17
MoneyLaundering.com: South Sudanese Military Leader Accused of Corruption and Money Laundering
A top commander in South Sudan’s People’s Liberation Army managed to embezzle and launder millions from the world’s youngest state with the help of a U.S. dollar-denominated account, a global advocacy group claimed in a report Wednesday.
Using his influence to steer commerce towards private companies under his control, Lieutenant General Malek Reuben Riak allegedly obtained and funneled more than $3 million of public funds into his personal account at Kenya Commercial Bank, or KCB, from January 2012 to March 2016, when he was the army’s deputy chief of staff for logistics, according to The Enough Project, a global advocacy group.
