George Clooney teams up with Refinitiv to isolate Africa’s looters
The aim is to prevent dirty money associated with humans rights abuses from entering the global financial system
Actor George Clooney has teamed up with global financial data provider Refinitiv to prevent Africa’s war criminals from abusing the international financial system by preventing them from laundering and hiding the proceeds of crimes that are often the result of violence.
Refinitiv is a company that possesses some of the largest pools of data used by the global financial system, private sector companies and governments to undertake due diligence. The Sentry is a strategic partner of the Clooney Foundation for Justice that specialises in identifying and tracking dirty money associated with Africa’s war criminals. Their partnership was announced on Thursday...
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