Jail for former Lesotho Highlands chief

MASUPHA SOLE, THE FORMER CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE LESOTHO HIGHLANDS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, was sentenced earlier this month to 57 years in prison for accepting bribes from international corporations. Sole will have to serve 18 years of the total sentence as some of the sentences run concurrently.

The disgraced former CEO was convicted on 13 counts of bribery and fraud, for taking bribes from international consultants and contractors to induce him to grant lucrative Lesotho Highlands Water Project contracts to them.

Eleven fraud sentences will run concurrently and the two bribery convictions are consecutive.

Judge Brendan Cullinan said that the sentences must “express the public abhorrence with ...

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