The ‘business’ of assassination is booming

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In 2022, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime recorded 141 assassinations in SA, an average of more than two a week. Moneyweb

The August 2021 killing of accountant Babita Deokaran outside her home in south Joburg sent a spine-chilling message to whistleblowers everywhere: exposing corruption can be lethal. Deokaran, the former chief director of financial accounting at the Gauteng Health Department appears to have been targeted for exposing about R1 billion worth of irregular tenders at the Tembisa Hospital.

A safe space and support for whistleblowers Despite high levels of targeted killings, there is no dedicated state-level database focusing on this crime group, says the report. To be declared a ‘hit’, the researchers say certain criteria must be met: criminal justice or the deceased family’s declaration that the killing was a hit, the circumstances in which the hit took place, and that it was the result of a transaction .

Platinum mine tense after assassination of unionist There’s a disturbing flippancy about the way in which assassinations are being used to settle personal vendettas, commit insurance fraud, or get into local government – a sure way to get your hands on public funds. To curb assassinations, the author of The Business of Killing report suggests treating ‘hits’ as a separate crime category rather than as part of murder.

 

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