Lesotho: Water Project Boss Convicted of Bribery

Johannesburg — THE former CE of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority was convicted yesterday of accepting bribes from some of the world's best-known contractors.

Masupha Sole was pushed into the Lesotho High Court in his hospital bed to hear Judge Brendon Cullinan convict him on 13 counts of bribery. He accepted bribes from international consultants and contractors from the US, Canada, the UK, Germany and France to induce him to grant them lucrative contracts in the giant Lesotho Highlands Water Project, which supplies water to SA.

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