Unaccountable 00028 Case File: PwC and Nkonki
26 July 2021 | This is the repository of documents cited in the 28th profile of the Unaccountable series which focusses on the role of PwC and Nkonki as auditors of the national air carrier, SAA.
Unaccountable 00023 Case File: PRASA
This is the repository for all the documents cited in the PRASA-related Unaccountable profiles and 3-part PRASA series with GroundUp. Corruption has a direct impact on the lives of people in South Africa. The link between corruption and lived experience is nowhere more obvious than the erosion of passenger train services in South Africa. The…
Unaccountable Case File 00025: VTB Capital- The Russian Bank that took Mozambique for a ride
19 May 2021 | This is the repository of the sources cited in the 25th instalment of Unaccountable, VTB Capital- The Russian Bank that took Mozambique for a ride.
Unaccountable Case File 00022: CRRC- China Inc Boards the State Capture Train
This is the repository for all the documents cited in the 22nd profile of the Unaccountable series: CRRC- China Inc boards the state capture train Where is the Transnet loot and why hasn’t it been recovered? Given the governments recently announced austerity measures targeting social spending this question demands an urgent answer. Why have institutions…
Unaccountable Case File 00021: Bain & Co
This is the repository for all the documents cited in the 21st profile of the Unaccountable series: Bain & Co.- The ‘KGB of consulting’ Bain and Company (Bain) is one of several powerful multinational corporations at the centre of corruption and state capture in South Africa. Bain enabled the wrecking of the South African Revenue…
Unaccountable Case Files: The Mozambique $2.2 billion Tuna-Bond Scam
This is the repository for some of the documents cited in Unaccountable 20: Credit Suisse, Unaccountable 25: VTB Capital and Unaccountable 27: EY. These installments of the Unaccountable series focus on the role of private-sector enablers of the secret tuna-bond loans that caused Mozabique’s economy to spiral in 2016. A crisis the country is still…
Unaccountable Case File 00015: The BAE Systems Corruption Bombshell
Below are the documents cited in Unaccountable 00015: The BAE Systems Corruption Bombshell. This is the final chapter in Open Secrets’ three-part series detailing BAE Systems’ network of middlemen and agents who were paid generously in return for their political connections and influence during South Africa’s 1999 Arms Deal. The Arms Deal was…
Unaccountable Case File 00014: BAE Systems – (Profit) Before Anything Else
Below are the documents cited in Unaccountable 00014: BAE Systems- (Profit) Before Anything Else. This is the final chapter in Open Secrets’ three-part series detailing BAE Systems’ network of middlemen and agents who were paid generously in return for their political connections and influence during South Africa’s 1999 Arms Deal. This week we turn…
Unaccountable Case File 00013-14: John Bredenkamp and Fana Hlongwane- Agents of BAE Systems
Below are the documents cited in Unaccountable profiles 00012-00013. These profiles are the third and fourth in a series of profiles based on the corporations and middlemen implicated in the multibillion-dollar Arms Deal of the late 1990s. None of these companies or individuals have been held to account. These profiles turn the spotlight onto…
Unaccountable 00011 Case File: Thales- How to Buy a Country
Below are the documents cited in Unaccountable 00011: Thales- How to buy a country. This profile is the second in a series of profiles based on the corporations and middlemen implicated in the multibillion-dollar Arms Deal of the late 1990s. None of these companies or individuals have been held to account. This profile is…