Receivers of stolen information risk money laundering charge

Or stories are published or aired on TV or radio of contractors considering legal action because they were unsuccessful in securing a specific government contract. The source of their information to ground any action, apparently leaked to them by family or friends or corrupt government officials who work for the ministry that issued the contract.

While there are specific corruption offences for officials who release information unlawfully and for those who offer or provide some inducement to do so, what are the other repercussions for any person or entity that receives unsolicited unlawfully acquired and released information? Particularly if they also act upon that information for their own benefit or the benefit of another for example their employer.Widely unknown and understood amongst professionals and the general public is the application of the criminal money laundering laws of Botswana to corruption. Internationally, money laundering laws were initially enacted to combat the proceeds of drug trafficking and later expanded to include other crimes particularly human trafficking, people smuggling and weapons smuggling.