By Johnathan Paoli
World Bank anti-corruption expert Albertus Schoeman has told the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry that South Africa’s corruption prevention framework is failing to detect criminal infiltration of the criminal justice system because of weak financial disclosure rules, ineffective lifestyle reviews, and inadequate sanctions.
Testifying before the commission on Thursday, Schoeman revealed that no full lifestyle audits have been conducted on senior South African Police Service (SAPS) officials over the past five years, despite persistent corruption concerns within the police.
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“The gaps in the financial disclosure form’s requirements and the vulnerabilities of a weak institutional framework help explain why no misconduct or unexplained wealth has been detected among SAPS officials over the last five years,” he said.
Instead, SAPS has relied on lifestyle reviews and investigations, which Schoeman said have produced virtually no meaningful
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