Namibia: Corruption Gets Defence Official Six Years in Jail

AN OFFICIAL in the Ministry of Defence has been sent to prison for six years after he admitted that he was involved in a corrupt scheme in which close to N$800 000 was embezzled from his employer.

Magistrate Cosmos Endjala sentenced Sam Natangwe Shingenge in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court in Katutura after Shingenge pleaded guilty to two charges of corruptly using an office or position for gratification, two counts of corruptly using a false document, and one charge of money laundering.

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