Jackie Selebi

Jacob Sello Selebi, Jackie Selebi ( born March 7, 1950 in Johannesburg) is a South African politician. He was 1987-1991 President of the ANC Youth League ( ANCYL ), 2000-2009 Chief of the South African Police Service and between 2004 and 2008 President of Interpol. In 2010 he was sentenced to a 15 - year sentence for corruption, but released after 229 days due to health reasons.

Career

Selebi was 1983-1987 representative of the ANCYL at the World Federation of Democratic Youth ( WFDY ) in Budapest. In 1987, in exile in Zambia as President of the Youth League, and at the same time elected to the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress ( ANC). After the end of apartheid, he was responsible for the repatriation of ANC members in exile. After he was back in 1993 became head of the welfare department of the ANC, Selebi was elected in the first free elections to the National Assembly in 1994. The following year he was appointed as Ambassador of South Africa to the United Nations, where he was a member of the UN Human Rights Commission and the Oslo Conference preparatory to the Ottawa Convention. After retiring from the message service in 1998 he became the Director General of the Foreign Ministry; 2000 appointed him Thabo Mbeki to the National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, the Head of the entire police force of the country. During his tenure, he was first vice-president, was elected president of Interpol in 2004.

Criticism, withdrawal and process

Selebi was suspended in 2008 because of corruption, fraud and extortion suspicion from his office. He was accused of having accepted a bribe of 1.2 million Rand. Shortly thereafter, he resigned as president of Interpol, 2009, he put his hitherto exercised functions in the ANC and his seat down. In 2007, he was being criticized because he had shown himself blankly in the face of the Football World Cup 2010 in front of a parliamentary committee on the question of by criminal ( "What's all the fuss about crime"; dt: What is all ' excitement to the had pleaded crimes ), and for the legalization of prostitution and public drinking. In April 2010 the case against Selebi began; he admitted his friendship with the businessman and drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti, called the allegations but baseless. In July 2010 he was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to a prison term of 15 years. His appeal was dismissed in December 2011 by the Supreme Court and arranged the immediate beginning of the sentence. In July 2012, he was released on medical parole on probation; the decision was set in the context of his friendship with Jacob Zuma.