US citizen in court for forgery

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Gaborone Village Chief Magistrate, Linah Mokibe-Oahile granted bail yesterday to a 52 year-old American charged with uttering false documents and giving false information to get employment at the Ministry of Infrastructure, Science and Technology in 2012.

John Edward Carroll is alleged to have uttered a false Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, thereby defrauding the ministry a total P228,980.10 in salaries.

He faces another charge of falsely informing one Tshireletso Mandu Chenga, a human resource manager at the ministry that his wife Sarona Matshidiso Sebina and daughter Samiera Karabo Carroll were in the US and needed to join him in Botswana.

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