Weekly Report - 19 March 2015 (WR-15-11)

Dino Bouterse, the 41-year-old son of Suriname’s President Desi Bouterse, has been sentenced to 16 years and three months in prison, after pleading guilty in a US federal court in New York on 29 August last year to the joint charge of drug trafficking and possession of a light anti-tank weapon as well as to a separate international terrorism offence. President Bouterse, who has said his son was responsible for his own actions despite having named him director of Suriname’s counter-terrorism unit (CTU) in 2010, failed last January in an appeal to the Dutch supreme court to review his own conviction, in absentia, in 1999 for drug-trafficking.

End of preview - This article contains approximately 386 words.

Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article

Not a Subscriber?

Choose from one of the following options

• Subscribe
• Sign up for a one-time, 14-day trial