'State enemy No.1' Salbany cleared

 Carlos Salbany. PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Carlos Salbany. PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Attorney Joao Salbany who recently got a top job at the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) was cleared of his charges just a few weeks before his appointment.

This was four years after the DCEC laid a charge of obstructing the State agents from executing their duties against him. Regarded as once an ‘enemy’ of the State, Salbany was arrested and detained at Mogoditshane Police Station supposedly on a charge of obstructing the officers in their investigations back in 2015.

At the time, he was representing Botswana Gazette newspaper in a case in which the DCEC raided the offices of the publication in an attempt to stop it from publishing some information that involved a subject of an investigatoin by the graft busting agency.

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Inspect the voters' roll!

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