DA takes the state capture fight to McKinsey — on home soil in London
DA leader Mmusi Maimane is to ask the UK Serious Fraud Office to investigate the allegedly corrupt dealings of global consultancy firm McKinsey in terms of the country’s Bribery Act. McKinsey’s headquarters are based in London. The request is based on revelations about McKinsey’s role in facilitating corruption at Eskom in collaboration with the Gupta-associated Trillian. The DA also laid criminal charges of fraud, racketeering and collusion under the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act against McKinsey this week. Its action against McKinsey is similar to the action it took against public relations firm Bell Pottinger, which the DA reported to the UK public relations industry body because of its work for the Guptas and its racially divisive campaign against "white monopoly capital". The PR firm was expelled from the body, has been ditched by a number of clients and is under administration. "The DA will not back down in our pursuit of full accountability in these matte...
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