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Will Ross
Africa editor, BBC World Service
Ethiopia is set to begin the third phase of repatriating 70,000 of its citizens from Saudi Arabia. The former head of the retail group that was at the centre of a huge corporate fraud case in South Africa has died, a day after he was ordered to pay $25m (£20m) as a fine.
Ethiopia's foreign ministry says the citizens "are in a difficult situation" in the Gulf country. Police said Markus Jooste succumbed to a gunshot wound after he allegedly shot himself on Thursday outside his home.
The repatriations will begin in two weeks. “The circumstances surrounding his death are being investigated,” police spokesperson André Traut told local media.
Saudi Arabia had asked foreign workers residing in the country without legal rights to leave or face jail time. The country's financial regulator said Jooste had played a role in the publishing of misleading financial statements about Steinhoff International Holdings.
The country hosts an estimated 750,000 Ethiopians, more than half of whom are in the country illegally, according The retailer has suffered heavy losses as have investors in South African pension funds since an accounting scandal broke in 2017.
to the UN migration agency IOM. Prior to that, Jooste had acquired billions of dollars' worth of high street retailers across Europe (including the UK-based Poundland).
They include workers, job seekers and refugees fleeing conflict in the Horn of Africa nation. He had also been fined for insider trading in 2020.
Human rights groups have previously said that some Ethiopian migrants have faced rights abuses in Saudi Arabia, including torture and killings.
Saudi Arabia has repatriated more than 350,000 Ethiopians since 2017, according to IOM.
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