JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's prison authorities say the nation's former police chief who is serving 15 years in jail for corruption has been freed on health grounds. Correctional Services Minister Sibusiso Ndebele told reporters Friday Jackie Selebi, whose appeal against the sentence was rejected in December, “will be allowed to home today.” Selebi, 62, also a former head of the international police organization Interpol, was suffering from cancer and was under treatment in prison. Officials said he was granted medical parole for compassionate reasons. Selebi resigned as national police commissioner and Interpol boss when corruption charges involving collusion with organized crime figures were filed in 2008. — AP
