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[from amaah] Money Laundering And Foreign Corruption: Case Study Involving Riggs Bank (pdf)

The Senate report on Riggs bank and its dealings with Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea's strongman, and Pinochet, Chile's erstwhile dictator. It takes two to do the corruption tango.

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[from amaah] Route of Evil

Hyperbole for sure but founded on the rise of Guinea-Bissau as a major staging point for the drug trade from Columbia and Venezuela to Europe. The effects are what one can expect: a hollowed state, narco-corruption, addicts

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[from amaah] Timepieces

The dictator and the watch; remembrance of rogues past

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[from amaah] Criminal Politics: Violence, "Godfathers" and Corruption in Nigeria

hardball is almost inevitable in a land that values Big Men... The stakes being so much higher also raise the ruthlessness of the methods employed. Still Nigeria is now undoubtedly a democracy- a few more years of institutionalizing it are needed that's a

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[from amaah] The looting of Kenya

The breathtaking extent of corruption perpetrated by the family of the former Kenyan leader Daniel Arap Moi a web of shell companies, secret trusts and frontmen that his entourage used to funnel more than £1bn into nearly 30 countries including Britain

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[from amaah] Togo election set to unleash new terror in Africa

Human rights organisations estimated that Eyadema kept a personal fortune approaching $3billion in foreign banks while building himself a $6million French-style chateau in his northern home village. Much of his fortune came from his take of Nigeria's he

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[from amaah] Lawmaker Indicted on Corruption Charges

11 bribery and fraud schemes: telecommunications deals in Nigeria and Ghana, oil concessions in Equatorial Guinea, waste-recycling systems in Nigeria and the Nigerian sugar plant for which he sought Export-Import Bank financing.

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