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Minister's Shooting Assassination Unmasks Deep Corruption in Samoa
9 August 1999
Sydney Morning Herald / AFP
The assassination of a Cabinet minister, the arrest of two leading politicians and the death penalty for one of their sons, is turning into a seismic event for Samoa with the revelation of a deep strain of high-level political corruption.
Central to it all is the former prime minister, Dr Tofilau Eti Alesana, who died in March, and his finance minister, now prime minister, Tuila'epa Sailele Malielegaoi, who fought the corruption allegations now re-emerging after the... (GunPolicy.org)