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South Africa former police chief’s clandestine shopping trips

August 14, 2013Conflict & Justice

South Africa’s former top cop gets a 15-year sentence for corruption. The BBC’s Jonah Fisher tells David Baron how testimony detailed the police chief’s clandestine shopping trips on the tab of one of the country’s leading underworld figures.

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