Pambazuka News

South Africa: "Scorpions" boss to join World Bank

2008-05-08

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/corruption/47959

The head of South Africa's Scorpions crime-fighting unit, Leonard McCarthy, was appointed on Monday to head the World Bank's anti-corruption unit. World Bank President Robert Zoellick, in a statement, said South African President Thabo Mbeki had agreed to release McCarthy from service to take up the position as vice president of the bank's Department of Institutional Integrity on June 30.