How millions in terror funding flowed through SA

Despite the dodgy Isis-related transactions being flagged three years ago, little action has been taken by local authorities

23 April 2023 - 00:04 By Aron Hyman, Graeme Hosken and Tankiso Makhetha

Loopholes in financial vigilance allowed more than R400m  — some of it believed to have funded fatal Isis bomb attacks in Uganda two years ago — to flow out of South Africa in suspicious transactions between January 2020 and March 2021.  ..

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