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International Investigation Reveals Eswatini's Financial Secrets

The project Swazi Secrets, coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in cooperation with other partners, has exposed Eswatini's unexplored role as a possible conduit in southern Africa's gold smuggling economy -- and how the nation's weak anti-money laundering controls enable figures close to the royal family to benefit from proximity to King Mswati III.

The project is based on a leak of more than 890,000 internal records from the Eswatini Financial Intelligence Unit, obtained by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a nonprofit devoted to publishing and archiving leaks. The ICIJ reports that the leak is the largest of its kind from a financial intelligence unit in an African country.

AllAfrica has republished ICIJ reporting on Africa, by arrangement with the consortium, since 2018 in order to give it wider coverage among our international audience of Africa-interested readers.

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King Mswati III at a national celebration in Eswatini (file photo)

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