BURS denies investigating Kebonang :: Mmegi Online

The Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) has denied that that they are looking into the tax affairs of Judge Zein Kebonang. This comes after a midweek newspaper reported that the tax collector is seeking advice to pursue Kebonang over undeclared payments from Basis Points Capital before and after he was appointed a High Court Judge.

Alongside asset manager, Bakang Seretse, the Judge was a director of Basis Point Capital in 2015 but later resigned when he joined the bench. The company was reportedly awarded a tender to draft technical, advisory and financial strategy of the petroleum fund for a contract worth P15 million. It is reported that Kebonang was paid a fee of P1, 3 million.

According to the newspaper report, the Auditor General in March 2018 found that the company “had submitted incomplete bid and should have been disqualified”. On Wednesday, the BURS Commissioner General, Ken Morris denied that BURS officials ever gave an interview to the newspaper concerning the affairs of Kebonang.

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