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Wikileaks Breaks $3 Billion Corruption Story

Posted by kdawson on from the all-for-moi dept.

James Hardine writes Wikileaks, the website for whistleblowers, has broken one of the world's biggest corruption stories in the international press (Guardian, BBC, Forbes, Sydney Morning Herald). The site has leaked a secret report on looting by ex-president Moi of Kenya — and possibly altered the outcome of an impending national election. Moi has become a key player in political life in Kenya, and is now an essential pillar in President Kibaki's campaign for re-election in December 2007. From the Wikileaks page: 'The suppressed auditor's report reveals that currency worth billions of US dollars was looted from Kenya by President Moi and his associates. The money was laundered across the world and includes properties and shell companies in London, New York and South Africa and even a 10,000 hectare ranch in Australia.'"

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  1. Yeah.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Insert African Spam joke in here for mod parent up.

  2. Re:I can' wait... by Scrameustache · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    to find out how this is George Bush's fault... I'm too sleepy to make a proper clever joke about Kenya's bush and some sort of safari reference to the wiki, someone else will, hopefully.

    In the meantime, there's always this: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20 031006-1.html
      PRESIDENT KIBAKI: Mr. President, thank you for your kind remarks. I wish to thank you for -- Mr. President, the government and the people of the United States, for the warm welcome and hospitality extended to me and my delegation since our arrival. I feel privileged to have been accorded such a great honor and look forward to successful deliberations on matters of mutual interest to our two nations.

    --

    You can't take the sky from me...

  3. Why Kenya? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why did this have to happen in Kenya?? Why? I had nearly forgotten about her damn it. I shouldn't even be writing stuff such as this. I must forget her.

  4. I could have been rich! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    DEAR SIR,

    CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL

    HAVING CONSULTED WITH MY COLLEAGUES AND BASED ON THE INFORMATION GATHERED FROM THE KENYA CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TO REQUEST FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE TO TRANSFER THE SUM OF $47,500,000.00 (FORTY SEVEN MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) INTO YOUR ACCOUNTS. THE ABOVE SUM RESULTED FROM AN OVER-INVOICED CONTRACT, EXECUTED COMMISSIONED AND PAID FOR ABOUT FIVE YEARS (5) AGO BY A FOREIGN CONTRACTOR. THIS ACTION WAS HOWEVER INTENTIONAL AND SINCE THEN THE FUND HAS BEEN IN A SUSPENSE ACCOUNT AT THE CENTRAL BANK OF KENYA APEX BANK.

    [...]

  5. Linus is right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am with Linus on this one. For the life of me I can't understand what this sucking up to RMS is about. Linus himself does not think GPLv3 is a good thing. So why do people keep adopting it.
    Without Linus FOSS is tossed. Not following Linus is dangerous for the survival of FOSS.