{"id":207685,"date":"2025-09-20T07:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-politically-exposed-persons-peps-in-focus-the-nexus-between-corruption-and-money-laundering\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T07:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:03:09","slug":"ghana-politically-exposed-persons-peps-in-focus-the-nexus-between-corruption-and-money-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-politically-exposed-persons-peps-in-focus-the-nexus-between-corruption-and-money-laundering\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) in Focus &#8211; the Nexus Between Corruption and Money Laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">Corruption and money laundering are intrinsically linked; corruption creates illicit funds through crimes such as bribery, extortion and embezzlement, which are then laundered to appear legitimate, with money laundering then providing a way to enjoy and integrate these proceeds into the economy. This process allows corrupt individuals to enjoy their ill-gotten gains without fear of detection or confiscation of their proceeds of crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Globally, concerns have been raised regarding the financial&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509190450.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corruption and money laundering are intrinsically linked; corruption creates illicit funds through crimes such as bribery, extortion and embezzlement, which are then laundered to appear legitimate, with money laundering then providing a way to enjoy and integrate these proceeds into the economy. This process allows corrupt individuals to enjoy their ill-gotten gains without fear of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4723,17189,5759,4508,4509,9119,5108,257,12443,52394,10183,17810,254],"class_list":["post-207685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corruption","tag-exposed","tag-focus","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-laundering","tag-money","tag-news","tag-nexus","tag-peps","tag-persons","tag-politically","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}