AGA: Combating financial crimes in Africa
Participants during a virtual workshop on financial crimes organised by AGA-Africa and the Drug Enforcement Commission. AGA-Africa works with law enforcement agencies in Africa and other countries to combat financial crime through knowledge sharing. JACK ZIMBA ABOUT June 2019, a young woman working for Barclays Bank Zambia (before it changed its name to Absa) allegedly gained access to the vault, laid her hands on over US$400,000 cash and vanished. Pamela Gondwe became an instant social media hit, and both local and international law enforcement agencies got on her trail. Almost exactly two years later, the case is still active, as Pamela is still a fugitive. She is believed to have slipped out of the country with her Nigerian boyfriend. While Pamela Gondwe’s whereabouts remain unknown, the case presents a typical example of one of the challenges law enforcement agencies face in reining in suspects who escape beyond their area of jurisdiction. And for a long time, international crim