Sentry links banks, firms and senior officials to Sudan Sudan plunder

Motorists on a dusty road in Juba in 2013. FILE PHOTO | AFP

US advocacy group The Sentry is alleging $1 billion was embezzled in deals involving senior government officials, foreign companies and international banks in South Sudan.

In the investigation titled Cash Grab: How a Billion-Dollar Scam Credit Robbed South Sudan of Fuel, Food and Medicine, The Sentry places the theft at the door of a 2012 failed letter of credit programme.