Deferred Prosecution Agreements: a Solution to Prosecuting Backlog?
By EsqSocial Corporation 07/06/21
[co-author: Kaede Wildschut, and Karam Singh] FTI Consulting South Africa and Corruption Watch recently co-authored an article titled ‘Addressing Corruption in South Africa’ in which we argued, inter alia, that consideration should be given to allowing criminal offenders to self-disclose and subject themselves to an administrative penalty to avoid criminal prosecution through the mechanism of deferred prosecution agreements (“DPAs”). In February 2019, President Ramaphosa announced the...
By: FTI Consulting