World Soccer Corruption, Africa’s “Illicit Financial Flows” and Elite Silences

“Do US Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the FBI give a damn about the deeper economic and political corruption of our society in 2010?”

by Patrick Bond

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The last week has provided extraordinary examples of how corruption erodes the resources and morals of an entire continent – Africa – in part because villains here in South Africa made alliances with wicked brothers in Switzerland, Latin America, the Caribbean and especially the United States. We now know more about offshore centers of both reactionary finance and corrupt-corporate soccer. It’s long overdue they are exposed to a spotlight, even if those pointing that light want to leave certain features in the shadows.

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