ECONOMIC COLLAPSE IN ZIMBABWE FUELS PUBIC SECTOR CORRUPTION
April 1st, 2007
BY BILL CORCORAN, in JohannesburgAS Zimbabwe descends further into economic and political meltdown the country's ruling elite are continuing to enrich themselves through fraud, theft and bribery. Bill Corcoran reports from Johannesburg.UNLIKE politically stable countries where large scale commercial crime is just as likely to occur in the private sector as it is in the public, troubled Zimbabwe's major fraudsters and thieves are today predominantly found in state run companies or government departments.Due to the country's spiralling annual inflation rate of ...
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