Double standards?

I cannot see why Niels Tobiasen and Ananias Tumukunde are treated differently in a case where both were found guilty! I can understand that one 'gave' the 'bribe' and the other solicited for it, but the punishment is so unfair and the discripancy unjustifiable!

Rob Evans and Paul Lewis report for the Guardian.

On Monday, Ananias Tumukunde, a 31-year-old adviser to the Ugandan president, was jailed for a year for receiving the payments, dressed up as "local tax".

Southwark crown court in London had heard that Tumukunde demanded the bribes after Tobiasen's firm was given a contract to protect world leaders, including the Queen and Gordon Brown, at a Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Kampala last November. Tobiasen's firm, CBRN Team, received six contracts from the Ugandan government worth a total of £500,000.

The court heard that Tobiasen admitted the payments soon after he was arrested by City of London police and had "fully" cooperated. Tobiasen made five payments between June last year and February this year to Tumukunde and a Ugandan army officer, Rusoke Tagaswire, who is still at large.

I am forced to conclude that race played a big part in this decision! How else can you explain this?