P50,000 Found Inside Maele's Dustbin

Monday, March 12, 2018

Maele eyes the camera as he, accompanied his lawyer Uyapo Ndadi, check themselves in at DCEC on Sunday. PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES

The corruption-bursting agency, the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) has uncovered P50,000 cash at a house belonging to the Minister of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services, Prince Maele, on Saturday morning.

After days of what appeared like a covert operation that saw DCEC agents camping out at Maele’s Block 6 house in Gaborone, the minister had to be taken in to explain the large sums of money dug from his yard.

Neighbours at Block 6 reported that they started noticing suspicious ‘DIS agents’ vehicles swarming the neighbourhood since mid last week.

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P50,000 Found Inside Maele's Dustbin

The corruption-bursting agency, the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) has uncovered P50,000 cash at a house belonging to the Minister of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services, Prince Maele, on Saturday morning.

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