UAE/RAK: Malawi watchdog pursues Rak Gas payment

Malawian extractive industries watchdog Natural Resources Justice Network (NRJN) has raised concerns about a $235,700 payment made by the UAE-based Rak Gas to the government of the southern African state’s disgraced former president Joyce Banda. The payment, to the Reserve Bank of Malawi’s mines department, was made just weeks before elections in 2014 that removed Banda from power. Her government presided over ‘cashgate’, the biggest financial scandal in Malawi’s history.