DIS case adjourned
Tumelo Mouwane | Tuesday June 6, 2017 17:13
The duo, Thulaganyo Boiditswe and Tshepo Makgalemele, are directors of Sparkling Auto Care Botswana franchise at the Airport Junction mall in Gaborone and through their lawyer, Lyndon Mothusi, want Kgosi and some other officers to be arrested and charged for allegedly trying to intimidate them on a matter that is before the courts. The case developed from a CEDA loan application, which the duo applied for in order to fund the franchise five years ago. The DIS put the loan under the microscope on suspicion that it was fraudulent. In the papers filed on May 22, 2017 the duo state that they have never received any information on the alleged fraud charge and they are still awaiting the P1.6 million to be disbursed.
The applicants decried that they have on several occasions been detained and subsequently interrogated on a matter that is before the courts. In their court papers, the applicants state that they were allegedly detained on April 19, 2017 at the Kgale Mews CID offices and hence they deemed their “continued harassment by the DIS and police” as unprocedural, unconstitutional and a way to force them to drop a case which is before the courts. The duo stated in their affidavits that it is unfounded for the DIS and police to be still investigating the matter five years after their initial arrest. Other officers who have been implicated are Chepete and Mtsosa, both based at the Broadhurst police station; A. Sese, Dynamunthi, Ntwaetsile (fraud squad officers), all based at Kgale Mews CID office.
Adjourning the arguments hearing, Dube briefly said the file only came to her attention on Thursday hence she did not expect the case to be argued on Friday.
“The file only came to my attention yesterday (Thursday) hence I thought the case would not be argued today (Friday),” she briefed the parties.