SENIOR government officials in South Sudan have embezzled US$36 million from the country’s coffers with the aid of international institutions and multinational banks, says Yasmin Sooka, the head of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights for the nation.
“It is worth noting this is just what we were able to trace and may not reflect the whole picture,” said Sooka in an update to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday.
“These represent illicit financial flows from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning and the National Revenue Authority,” Sooka said. “Shockingly, these South Sudanese bodies have been aided and abetted in these crimes by a number of international corporations and multinational banks. Some of this money has been laundered through the purchase of properties abroad. Indeed those properties may well be in your countries.”
She noted that financial corruption is a main driver of the prolonged conflict in
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