Seretse's transactions exposed

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The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) successfully applied to the High Court for several bank accounts belonging to businessman, Bakang Seretse, to be frozen.

These are bank accounts of interest to the investigation of the DCEC regarding Seretse and two others for money-laundering. Seretse, Botho Leburu and Kenneth Kerekang were recently granted bail by the Gaborone Regional Magistrate and will appear in court on January 25, 2018 for mention.

The corruption busters are also trying to establish links and inter-links, to chase the movements of funds in and out of either bank accounts or all of them. It also shows that the scope of the DCEC investigation is widening. On December 13, 2017 before Justice Godfrey Radijeng, the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) applied for the ex parte application against Seretse’s properties and credit account balances.

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