On Thursday the 6th of July, Open Secrets and The Sentry will be launching our new investigative report, Fronts, Fakes and Façades. The report tells the story of how a politically-connected oil tycoon in Zimbabwe moved suspect funds from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to the City of London using front companies, fake invoices, and offshore financial façades.
Open Secrets is hiring a lawyer to join our team based in Cape Town
The price for negligent or shady auditing has just risen hugely, but will it make a difference to the number of accounting scandals in South Africa?
Open Secrets wrote to the Presidency Director-General seeking clarity and explanation on why the Lady R investigation would be secret with its report not going to be made public.
Open Secrets information requests to the Department of International Relations and Co-operation (DIRCO) and the State Security Agency (SSA) for any documentation regarding South Africa’s attempts to extradite Atul Gupta, Ajay Gupta and Rajesh Gupta.
Open Secrets is calling for public access to evidence of South Africa’s involvement in an alleged weapons transfer to a Russian vessel
Director of Open Secrets, Hennie van Vuuren is calling on the Presidency and the US government to make public details of the mysterious cargo of the Russian vessel Lady R which docked in Simon’s Town in December 2022.
Open Secrets has challenged both the South African Presidency and the US government to make public details of the mysterious cargo of the Russian vessel Lady R which docked in Simon’s Town in December 2022.
Democracy dies behind closed doors – Why we demand to know the truth about the Lady R arms shipment.
The most cynical corporations seek to rip off the poor. Few have been as effective as Net1 and Cash Payment Services (CPS). While they have rebranded, they have not paid back their illicit profits owed to millions of South Africans