From The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project:
Political parties in South Africa have called for investigations into former president Jacob Zuma after an explosive report published Sunday alleged that Zuma stashed millions of dollars belonging to the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in a bunker at his private home, known as the Nkandla homestead.
South African intelligence authorities allegedly said the money was later transported from Nkandla, in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, to the Kingdom of eSwatini (known as Swaziland until last year), and that the current South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has been asked to aid in its recovery.
In the final days of his decades-long regime, Gaddafi allegedly sold more than a fifth of Libya’s gold reserves, worth more than US$ 1 billion, and moved the money out of the country. Gaddafi died soon after in an uprising in 2011, and authorities are still searching for the funds.In a meeting last week between Ramaphosa and King Mswati III of eSwatini, the king confirmed the money’s existence, according to the report, which was published by the Sunday Times, the country’s biggest newspaper.The official government position, however, is quite different. International Relations and Cooperation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu called the Sunday Times article a “ghost story,” according to the Independent Online, a news website....MUCH MORE
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