Details are emerging of the shadowy life of former South African Defence Force major-general Tai Minnaar, who died in suspicious circumstances last September.
Minnaar was named this week as part of a team that claims to have documentary evidence showing that South African security forces carried out the 1986 murder of the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.
But it was Minnaar’s involvement last year in an extraordinary series of deals to try to sell South African biological warfare expertise that probably cost him his life.
On the night of September 9 Minnaar (62) died in the arms of his fiancÃ