Lessons from Malawi’s Cashgate scandal (opens in new tab)

Malawi’s Cashgate scandal is often remembered as an institutional failure. But the deeper lesson is that anti-corruption systems fail when the leaders meant to guard public resources become part of the fraud-enabling environment, writes Shahenda Shehata. Malawi’s 2013 Cashgate scandal exposed one of the country’s largest ever fraud cases. Public funds were diverted through payments