Jun.24, 2010
The alleged ringleader of an international crime syndicate is out on bail after being arrested for money laundering on an Interpol-issued warrant.
French authorities had been looking for him for years and asked South Africa to send him to France for trial.
Richard Mouamba is said to have pulled out a bag full of R100 notes and started counting them at the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court to pay his R1million bail.
The Times newspaper reported that Mouamba, who is a national of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was arrested last Wednesday.
He is alleged to have faked and laundered 20 million Francs and about 140 million Bahraini Dinars in 1998.
Mouamba is a businessman in Johannesburg and owns some popular clubs and restaurants. The case has been postponed until August.