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6:25 CAT | 08 Dec 2017
AFP / Former Liberian President Charles Taylor sits in the courtroom during his trial on 16 May, 2012 at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, based in Leidschendam outside The Hague, the Netherlands.
South Africa has arrested a Dutch arms dealer who was convicted in the Netherlands of delivering weapons to former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor’s regime in violation of a UN arms embargo.
The Netherlands has requested the extradition of Guus Kouwenhoven, who was sentenced to 19 years in prison in April, the Dutch prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
He was convicted of supplying weapons to the Taylor regime between 2000 and 2003 in exchange for lucrative contracts in the logging industry, AFP news agency reports.
Kouwenhoven appeared in court earlier today in the South African city of Cape Town.
The case was adjourned to 12 December for a bail application, South Africa’s News24 site reports.
Taylor is serving a life sentence in a UK prison after a UN-backed court convicted him of war crimes in Sierra Leone, Liberia’s neighbour.
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