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STORY: UN / MBEKI
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 6 FEBRUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
6 FEBRUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Zoom in, Thabo Mbeki at the podium
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Thabo Mbeki, Former President of the Republic of South Africa and Chair of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows:
“The continent is losing at least 50 billion dollars a year through these illicit outflows, which is in fact larger than the amount of overseas development assistance that the continent receives. Now, this is capital which is generated within the continent, belongs within the continent, but then leaves by these illicit means.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Thabo Mbeki, Former President of the Republic of South Africa and Chair of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows:
“The receiving countries are the developed countries as well as the tax havens. So, we’ve got to try and understand this matter of this illicit capital outflows out of the content, both from the point of view of we, the exporting continent, and then the receiving countries so that our recommendations will have to address both ends of this.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Thabo Mbeki, Former President of the Republic of South Africa and Chair of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows:
“About two thirds of this illicit outflows would originate from the activities of the multinational corporations, and perhaps 30 percent or so would then arise from straight forward criminal activity, whether is narcotics, human trafficking, and this kind of thing, and then specifically in terms of officials who receive bribes or acquire or steal state money and so on and export it.”
9. Med shot, journalists
10. Zoom out, end of presser
The former President of South Africa and Chair of the High Level Panel (HLP) on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) from Africa,, Thabo Mbeki, today (6 Feb) said Africa is losing “at least 50 billion dollars” through illicit outflows, an amount larger than the overseas development assistance that the continent receives.
Mbeki said that “this is capital which is generated within the continent, belongs within the continent, but then leaves by these illicit means.”
He noted that this capital ends up in “developed countries as well as the tax havens.”
Two thirds of this illicit outflows, Mbeki said, “originate from the activities of the multinational corporations” while approximately 30 percent comes from “straight forward criminal activity,” including narcotics and human trafficking. The remainder comes from “officials who receive bribes or acquire or steal state money and so on and export it.”
The HLP on IFF from Africa, established by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Union (AU) was inaugurated in February 2012 to address the debilitating problem of IFFs from Africa. The Panel is chaired by Mbeki and composed of nine other distinguished personalities from within and outside Africa.
