South Sudan, battered by years of conflict and corruption, has run out of foreign exchange reserves and cannot stop the pound’s depreciation, a senior central bank official in the oil-producing nation said on Wednesday. South Sudan gets almost all of its revenue from crude oil, but current output, at around 180,000 barrels per day, has […]

Two North Korean businessmen over the past two years have openly used a corporate account at Afriland First Bank in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s southernmost region despite global sanctions against Pyongyang, according to new research… Click here to read the full article. 

앵커: 미국의 한 비영리 단체가 북한 사업가들이 아프리카 국가 민주콩고공화국에 건설회사를 차리고 사업을 진행했으며, 콩고 은행과 정치인들이 이를 묵인했을 것이라고 주장했습니다. 유엔 안전보장이사회 등의 대북제재 결의를 공공연하게 위반했다는 지적입니다. 지정은 기자가 보도합니다. 미국의 비영리 국제감시단체 센트리(The Sentry)는 19일 “공공연한 사건: 북한 사업가들은 어떻게 콩고에서 대북제재를 회피했나(Overt affairs: How North Korean Businessmen Busted Sanctions in the Democratic […]

The Sentry anti-corruption group co-founded by Hollywood star George Clooney urged Congolese authorities Wednesday to “annul” contracts with local companies controlled by North Korean citizens apparently flouting international sanctions. “Don’t think for a second that corruption and money laundering in a place like the Democratic Republic of Congo doesn’t impact international security,” Clooney said. Two […]

The Sentry, the George Clooney-supported investigative team that follows the dirty money connected to African war criminals and transnational war profiteers, has published a report it says exposes North Korea’s exploitation of vulnerabilities in the DR Congo banking system to escape sanctions and access the global financial system. Clooney co-founded the org with John Prendergast and […]

Nouveau Rapport d’Enquête: La Corée du Nord Enfreint des Sanctions Internationales via une Banque en RDC George Clooney, co-fondateur, The Sentry, lance un avertissement : « Ne pensez pas une seule seconde que la corruption et le blanchiment d’argent dans un endroit comme la République démocratique du Congo n’impactent pas la sécurité internationale ». Le 19 août 2020 […]

Breaking Investigative Report: North Korea Busts Global Sanctions via Bank in DR Congo   George Clooney, The Sentry’s Co-Founder, warns: “Don’t think for a second that corruption and money laundering in a place like the Democratic Republic of Congo doesn’t impact international security.” August 19, 2020 (Washington, D.C.) – Evading the international sanctions designed to […]

The Sentry Welcomes Bipartisan Group of Senators’ Call to Secretaries of State, Treasury to Expand Targeted Sanctions, Focus on Anti-Corruption Reforms in DR Congo  August 17, 2020 (Washington, DC) – The Sentry welcomes the letter sent by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch (R-ID), Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Tim […]

The Sentry salue la demande du groupe bipartite de sénateurs aux secrétaires d’État et du Trésor des États-Unis pour élargir la portée des sanctions ciblées et exiger des réformes anticorruption en République démocratique du Congo  Le 17 août 2020 (Washington, D.C.) – The Sentry salue la lettre à l’intention du secrétaire d’État Mike Pompeo et du secrétaire du […]

President Salva Kiir has instructed the Economic Cluster of the transitional government to proceed with the economic reform agenda, following weeks of assessment of national revenue stream. “We are making a lot of changes, a lot of reforms and he [Kiir] has blessed all these reforms as we put them into recommendations to him,” Dr. James […]

…The release of this interactive map is a tremendous reflection of Dr. Levitt’s scholarship, expertise, and background as a former FBI analyst and Treasury official. In general, maps are a valued way of conveying information in a time when we are inundated with information and short on memory. They can consolidate, curate, and give shape […]

Note: This op-ed originally appeared in The Hill and was written by John Prendergast, Co-Founder of The Sentry. From the time he was a young man in the 1960s, John Lewis consistently put his life on the line in pursuit of racial justice. During his extraordinary career in public service, he lent his name and commitment to numerous causes, […]

En République démocratique du Congo, une nouvelle affaire pourrait entacher la réputation du secteur bancaire. Un ancien employé d’Access Bank RDC, Israël Kaseya, est poursuivi pour faux et usage de faux et est soupçonné d’avoir détourné plusieurs centaines de milliers de dollars. Mais pour son avocat comme pour ses proches, il s’agit d’un harcèlement judiciaire […]

The link between gold – used around the world for everything from fine jewellery to statues, mobile phones to dentistry – and conflict has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years. In particular, human rights groups have pointed to the way that gold is fuelling and financing ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo […]

Known as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “chef” because of the billions he made in the catering business, Russian financier Yevgeniy Prigozhin had far more cooking abroad, including meddling in U.S. elections and suppressing democracy in Sudan, according to U.S. charges. Now, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is issuing strong deterrents to ensure that Prigozhin and […]

Kenya is among country’s whose real estate sector is highly used for laundering proceeds from graft and international financial flows, a report  has shown. Nairobi is named among top locations in the report by ‘The Sentry’, an investigative and policy team that follows the dirty money connected to African war criminals and transnational war profiteers. […]

US authorities on Wednesday slapped sanctions on entities linked to Russian financier Yevgeniy Prigozhin over attempts to “suppress and discredit” democratic reforms in Sudan. “Yevgeniy Prigozhin and his network are exploiting Sudan’s natural resources for personal gain and spreading malign influence around the globe,” said US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. The action targets five companies […]

BREAKING: US Places Sanctions on Russian Prigozhin Network Linked to Violent Suppression of Democratic Protestors in Sudan   July 15, 2020 (Washington, D.C.) – Today, the US Department of the Treasury placed sanctions on individuals and businesses linked to Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the financer of the Russian troll farm Internet Research Agency (IRA), for attempts to suppress protestors seeking democratic […]

DARFUR, Sudan — The jagged peaks of the Jebel Marra mountains rise suddenly out of an endless stretch of desert in western Sudan’s Darfur region. Rows of orange trees are tucked into the valleys, next to half-destroyed villages. Across the mountain range, small bases are flanked by heavy weaponry. Rebel soldiers, many of whom came […]

On July 11, 2020, Hilary Mossberg, Director of Illicit Finance Policy at The Sentry, gave an interview with Voice of America’s Nightline Africa. Listen to the full interview below, beginning at minute 40:33. Click here to the listen to the interview on Voice of America’s website.