Keeping Foreign Corruption Out Of The United States: Four Case Histories

Publisher:
United States Senate
Publication Date:
4 February 2010
Tags:
Africa, United States, Canada and Africa, Corruption, Angola, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria

A report of the U.S. Senate Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigations into how politically powerful foreign officials, their relatives, and close associates utilize U.S. financial institutions to conceal, transfer, and spend funds suspected to be the proceeds of corruption.

The report deals with Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, son of the President of Equatorial Guinea, the family of Omar Bongo, former President of Gabon, the family of Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and former candidate for President of Nigeria, and with an Angolan arms dealer, an Angolan government official, and a small Angolan private bank.

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