Atan Shansonga (born November 1955) is a

Zambia Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to being in South-Central Africa or Southern Africa. It is bor ...

n diplomat, and the former Zambian Ambassador to the United States. Atan Shansonga was born in November 1955. Shansonga was Ambassador to the United States from 2000 to 2002, and was arrested in

Lusaka Lusaka ( ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Zambia. It is one of the fastest-developing cities in southern Africa. Lusaka is in the southern part of the central plateau at an elevation of about . , the city's population was abo ...

in 2002 as part of an investigation into the diversion of millions of dollars out of Zambia when President

Frederick Chiluba Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba (30 April 1943 – 18 June 2011) was a Zambian politician who was the second president of Zambia from 1991 to 2002. Chiluba, a trade union leader, won the country's multi-party presidential election in 1991 as th ...

was in office. Shansonga fled from Zambia in 2004, and is now based in England.

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1955 births Living people Ambassadors of Zambia to the United States Zambian diplomats Place of birth missing (living people) People named in the Panama Papers {{Zambia-bio-stub