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Justice catches up with Fat Leonard

The new year has dawned rather bleakly for “Fat Leonard”, a billionaire fraudster who masterminded one of the biggest corruption scandals in the Pentagon’s history. Just over a year after escaping house arrest in San Diego and fleeing to South America, the Malaysian national is set to return to US custody as part of a prisoner-swap deal with Venezuela, and will now face sentencing for his

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