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This research paper provides an overview of money laundering threats within the East and Southern African Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) region. It examines the strategic importance of laundering for organised crime and corruption, identifies common typologies (internal, incoming, and outgoing), and details specific predicate crimes such as drug trafficking, armed robbery, and currency speculation. The document also analyzes the region's vulnerability as a destination for illicit funds due to offshore financial regimes and regulatory weaknesses.

This case study by the Institute for Security Studies describes a scheme where money laundering syndicates stole US COVID-19 relief funds from child nutrition programmes and laundered them through Kenya, Turkey, and Dubai. It highlights significant failures in Kenya's legal framework and enforcement, noting that despite US convictions, no suspects have been prosecuted in Kenya nor have their Kenyan assets been seized.

The Transnet Inquiry Reference Book, authored by the Public Affairs Research Institute, provides a fact-based account of governance failures and systemic corruption at Transnet, South Africa's state-owned freight transport and logistics company. The report details how the company's governance was repurposed to facilitate large-scale corruption and rent-seeking, primarily benefiting the Gupta family and their associates through manipulated procurement processes for locomotives, cranes, and IT services.