Africa

The U.S. government recently went after assets belonging to Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman close to Putin. But there’s...

How Formations House, working through a smooth-talking salesman, sold Gambia a fake bill of goods.

Formations House created and sold companies based in a Gambian offshore zone — that the government says never existed.

Formations House sold the government on a medical marijuana plantation, but much of the money never materialized.

Leaked emails show London agent helped a shady businessman gain a foothold in offshore banking — or so he thought.

South Sudan is spending well beyond its means, even as it says its efforts to move on from a devastating civil war are being...

Investors pulled billions of rand out of public companies under the guise of a government program meant to address the...

The controversial Gupta family is known for making millions from the South African government — including $41 million from...

Busisiwe Mkhwebane, who heads the country’s top anti-corruption body, was flagged by global banking giant HSBC as having...

A Dutch investment fund acquired a popular gambling brand despite its long-standing ties to Italy’s criminal underworld.

Mining magnate Frank Timis appears to have earned hundreds of millions of dollars by muscling into a deal for a West African...

An Israeli contractor paid to grow food for South Sudan has been sanctioned for selling arms to the government instead....