In 2011, Cheryl Cwele, wife of former South African Intelligence Minister Siyabonga Cwele was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of running an international drug trafficking ring. According to case records, Cwele was identified as the kingpin at the head of a global drug smuggling
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