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Denmark arrests fugitive shansonga

Denmark arrests fugitive shansonga
By Ernest Chanda
Mon 25 June 2012, 13:25 CAT

FUGITIVE former Ambassador to the United States, Attan Shansonga, has been arrested in Denmark following a warrant of arrest issued against him by Zambia's security wings in 2004.

Shansonga, who was facing 169 counts of theft of public funds amounting to over US$1 million, fled the country to the United Kingdom in March 2004 and has since not returned.

Well-placed sources told The Post that Shansonga was arrested on Saturday June 23, 2012 by Danish security.

"He had gone to Denmark to visit a 'friend', but Danish security arrested him.
They based their arrest on the red alert that the Zambian security wings put on Mr Shansonga after he fled the country in March 2004. He could have been arrested in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, but it is not known exactly where he is being held there," said the sources.

More details on Shansonga's arrest are expected to unfold today.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested Shansonga in July 2002 in connection with the money he received from the Zamtrop account in London.

In the corruption cases, Shansonga was charged together with former president Frederick Chiluba and former director of Intelligence, Xavier Chungu.

Late president Levy Mwanawasa disclosed in his special address to Parliament on July 11, 2002 that apart from receiving amounts exceeding US $1.1 million from the Zamtrop account which was run by the Zambia Security Intelligence Services, Shansonga was also the brain behind MISSL and MISSL Associates, two companies incorporated in England and Wales and in the British Virgin Islands which were created by the Chiluba regime as consultants on the management of the former ZCCM assets.

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