Fruma Goldman

Fruma "Carlotta" Goldman (born 10 June, 1935) is a former attorney and judge who was revealed to be involved in criminal enterprises. She was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa to billionaire mining magnate Rabbi Yechezkel Goldman, member of one of South Africa's "then" richest colonial-era Jewish families.

Fruma Goldman was initially a ruthless criminal barrister and Queens Counsel to Kenya, South Africa and the United Kingdom. She is best known in her positions as former Court of Appeal Justice of the Supreme Court of Kenya, President of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Kenya, and Chief Justice of the Magistrates Court of the Natal from 1975-1988. Goldman became known by her drug code-name "Carlotta" who was brought down in one of South Africa's biggest colonial-era drug trafficking rings which revealed a horrific trail of murder and international money laundering.

Charged with murder and drug trafficking, she was convicted of drug trafficking but her murder charges were thrown out due to the disappearance of essential crown witnesses. Goldman is suspected of controlling billions of dollars in unaccounted money that the South African Police could not prove as deriving from proceeds of crime.

Quite controversially, Goldman only served 10 years of her 17 year sentence due to compassionate parole as a result of her ailing health. She was released from prison in 1998. Forbidden from residing in South Africa, Goldman has since resided in Australia.

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