The Sentry, the George Clooney-supported investigative team that follows the dirty money connected to African war criminals and transnational war profiteers, has published a report it says exposes North Korea’s exploitation of vulnerabilities in the DR Congo banking system to escape sanctions and access the global financial system.. Clooney co-founded the org with John …

Co-founded by George Clooney and John Prendergast, The Sentry is a flagship initiative and strategic partner of the Clooney Foundation for Justice.Overt Affairs: How North Korean Businessmen Busted Sanctions in the DRCHaaretz Op-ed: Is an Israeli Diamond Tycoon Using Trump-adjacent Lobbyists to Subvert U.S. Foreign Policy?Just Security Op-ed: Sudan’s Push for Removal from U.S. Terror List: Not a PanaceaUSA Today Op-ed: Violence is the business model in South SudanJust Security Op-ed: Beyond Sanctioning Elusive War Criminals, Prosecute the ProfiteersLawfare Op-ed: Congress Should Staff Up the Office of Foreign Assets Control The Sentry anti-corruption group co-founded by Hollywood star George Clooney urged Congolese authorities Wednesday to "annul" contracts with local companies controlled by North Korean citizens apparently flouting international sanctions. "Founded in 2018, Congo Aconde secured public contracts including for "two modestly sized statues" in the Democratic Republic of Congo´s Haut-Lomami province, including one of former president Laurent-Desire Kabila.The following year it won a bid to build a public park in the centre of capital city Kinshasa -- although "The Sentry could not establish that substantive work on the park had begun" by June 2020, the report said.Kinshasa´s mayor did not immediately respond when contacted by AFP about The Sentry´s allegations, nor could the Congo Aconde chiefs be reached.The Sentry anti-corruption group co-founded by Hollywood star George Clooney urged Congolese authorities Wednesday to "annul" contracts with local companies controlled by North Korean citizens apparently flouting international sanctions.

The Sentry is composed of financial investigators, international human rights lawyers, and regional experts, as well as former law enforcement agents, intelligence officers, policymakers, investigative journalists, and banking professionals. By advocating for the application of network sanctions, anti-money laundering measures, and other anticorruption strategies that are normally utilized to counter terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and drug trafficking, The Sentry helps creates significant financial consequences for those who seek to benefit from violence.In the case of South Sudan, the use of an array of financial pressures and anti-money laundering measures urged by The Sentry and made possible by its investigative dossiers helped:In the Democratic Republic of Congo, investigative research and coordinated advocacy by The Sentry, together with pressure from courageous Congolese civil society, contributed to the imposition of network sanctions and the threat of escalated sanctions aimed at some of the biggest profiteers of war and corruption inside and outside the country. Official multilateral efforts to impound stolen assets have largely failed because of a lack of political will by the U.S. and European governments and the skills of high-paid lawyers on behalf of their kleptocratic clients.The Sentry provides a mountain of exacting detail in this report in order to support its call for remedies.
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By creating hard-hitting reports and evidence-rich dossiers on individuals and entities connected to corruption, violence, and human rights abuses, and by sharing those with regulatory and law enforcement agencies and banks around the world, The Sentry aims to create significant financial consequences for kleptocrats, war criminals, and their international collaborators.Using network sanctions, anti-money laundering measures, prosecutions, compliance action by banks, asset seizures, and other tools of financial and legal pressure, the aim is to disrupt the cost-benefit calculations of those who hijack governments for self-enrichment and create new leverage for peace, human rights, and good governance. The Sentry is an investigative and policy team that follows the dirty money connected to African war criminals and transnational war profiteers and seeks to shut those benefiting from violence out of the international financial system.“Making A Killing: South Sudanese Military Leaders’ Wealth, Explained” Loan Wolves: Debt Scams Threaten Sudan’s Democratic Transition and Fragile EconomyRegister today and get THE SENTRY news and updates.The Sentry is an investigative and policy team that follows the dirty money connected to African war criminals and transnational war profiteers and seeks to shut those benefiting from violence out of the international financial system. Co-founded by George Clooney and John Prendergast, The Sentry is a flagship initiative and strategic partner of the Clooney Foundation for Justice.

tap to bring up your browser menu and select 'Add to homescreen' to pin the The News web app tap to bring up your browser menu and select 'Add to homescreen' to pin the The News web app The Sentry anti-corruption group co-founded by Hollywood star George Clooney urged Congolese authorities Wednesday to "annul" contracts with local companies controlled by North Korean citizens apparently flouting international sanctions. My experience tells me that reports like this new one, and the leadership of very high-profile celebrities like George Clooney, can make a difference.Sadly, it takes time, and this is something that the people in South Sudan and in many more countries, who are the victims of grand corruption, do not have.Frank Vogl is co-founder of Transparency International and author of Waging War on Corruption: Inside the Movement Fighting the Abuse of Power.