BCL creditors face long wait to get payment
Thursday, January 19, 2017
Nigel Dixon-Warren PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
He explained during a press conference here on Tuesday that the High Court will decide on February 7 if the companies should be placed under final liquidation.
He stated that afterwards, the Master of the High Court will convene a meeting so that creditors can prove their claims against the three subsidiaries of the BCL Group so that they can issue instructions to the liquidator and receive payment against their claims at the end of the liquidation process.
That a single private law firm pocketed P6.5 million for just four cases, out of a total P11.1 million paid for 25 matters, reeks of a system that was not merely disorganised but open to abuse.Bayford has taken a welcome first step by telling the Public Accounts Committee the truth. Now he must act decisively to ensure it never happens again and that any money lost to wrongdoing is recovered.The figures are staggering. Whilst ordinary Batswana...