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Yes too good to be true Quote:Foreign companies have made direct payments to the personal bank accounts of high-ranking South
Sudanese generals. Documents reviewed by The Sentry show $3.03 million moving through Gen. Reuben
Riak’s personal bank account at Kenya Commercial Bank between 2012 and 2016. Those documents further
indicate that Gen. Jok Riak also received large financial transfers totaling at least $367,000 to his personal
bank account at KCB from February to December 2014 alone—sums that dwarf his government salary of
about $35,000. These financial transfers apparently included $308,524.10 from Dalbit International, a
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Kenyan multinational corporation operating in South Sudan. Dalbit told The Sentry that the payment was a
reimbursement for a fuel supply deal with the SPLA that had fallen through, stating that it had been directed
to make the reimbursement payment into three accounts, including one held by Gen. Jok Riak. “This was
neither a business transaction nor relationship between Dalbit and the General,” the company said Quote:The AFP explained that the company did not trade vehicles.
Police claim the unanswered payments came from companies owned by two businessmen, Humphrey Kariuki and Idro Taban, both of whom are known to the anti-corruption organization The Sentry.
"Records show that companies that belonged to these business people were hired as chief of staff during the Hoth Mai contracts by the SPLA [Sudan’s People’s Liberation Army]including Belgravia Services Ltd Dalbit Petroleum and LOID Investment," The Sentry said in a statement.
"LOID Investment was listed as the" Notifying Party "for a weapons shipment and Dalbit Petroleum had wired hundreds of thousands of dollars into the personal bank accounts of two South Sudanese generals in 2014.
" Like Hoth Mai, one of these generals did the funds used for the purchase of a home outside of South Sudan. If Obiero did it, Who Am I?
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