The island nation must pay better attention to the warning signs to avoid the slippery slope of corruption.
Hardly a week after Mauritius was placed on the European Union's potential blacklist for money laundering and terrorism financing, another scandal came back to bite. On 8 June the African Development Bank (AfDB) announced that there was evidence that an energy project it had financed in Mauritius executed by Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC) was marred by procurement corruption.
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