Racketeering, corruption, money laundering fraud charges for Former South African president

South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma is to face prosecution for 16 charges of corruption relating to a multi-billion-dollar arms deal.

The case centres on a 30bn rand ($2.5bn; £1.7bn) deal to modernise the country's defence in the late 1990s.

The charges - which Mr Zuma denies - include counts of fraud, racketeering and money laundering.
French arms supplier Thales will also face charges, a prosecutor said. Thales declined to comment, reports the AFP news agency.

Mr Zuma is alleged to have sought bribes from Thales to support an extravagant lifestyle. His financial adviser at the time was found guilty of soliciting those bribes in 2005 and Mr Zuma was later sacked as deputy president.

Original charges against Mr Zuma were controversially dropped shortly before he became president in 2009.


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Identifying fingerprints from WhatsApp photo - Major drug dealer jailed

 

Caught red-handed! Major drug dealer is jailed for more than eight years after police identify his fingerprints from WhatsApp photo showing his hand holding ecstasy pills

• Elliot Morris, 28, from Redditch, was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court this week 
• His father and mother, Darren, 51, and Dominque, 44, also part of the drugs ring
• Police found £36,000-worth of drugs, £20,000 in cash and £20,000 in bitcoin

Read more at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5506605/Drug-dealer-jailed-police-identify-fingerprints-photo.html