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4 Feb 2010

Author:
Human Rights Watch

US: Adopt Anti-Corruption Proposals

The Obama administration should adopt recommendations in a report issued today to help stop the flow of stolen money into the United States, Human Rights Watch said. The report is the result of a detailed investigation by Senators Carl Levin and Tom Coburn into corruption in abusive, resource-rich states and the “enablers” that allow officials to funnel money out of their impoverished countries to spend lavishly abroad. The 330-page report “Keeping Foreign Corruption out of the United States: Four Case Histories,” details how officials in Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Nigeria funneled millions of dollars into the US with the help of a network of facilitators, including lawyers, realtors, banks, and other individuals and institutions... Human Rights Watch research supports many of the findings of the Senate report...[and] has...documented...and the links between [corruption] and pervasive political violence and the collapse of government services in [Nigeria]...