Botswana Illicit financial flows top P200bn � report

Friday, April 15, 2016

Botswana is among Southern African countries that are prone to illicit financial flows (IFFs) with up to P200 billion estimated to have been moved illegally over 10 years up to 2013, the latest Global Financial Integrity (GFI) report shows.

IFFs are illegal movements of money or capital from one country to another. GFI classifies this movement as an illicit flow when the funds are illegally earned, transferred, and/or utilised.

According to the 2015 report, between the years 2004 to 2013, up to US$20 billion might have been moved through illicit circumstances in Botswana putting the country in the same boat with other developing countries with cumulative IFFs.

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