Botswana awaits evidence in Fengyue Glass project

A Public Accounts Committee hearing underway PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
A Public Accounts Committee hearing underway PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

It has emerged that Botswana is still waiting for evidence from China regarding the doomed Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) multimillion-pula glass manufacturing project in Palapye.

Reading a response on behalf Attorney General Abraham Keetshabe, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Stephen Tiroyakgosi recently told Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that a request for mutual assistance was sent to China in February 2012 regarding the BDC-Fengyue Glass Botswana.  “We are still awaiting evidence,” Tiroyakgosi told members of the committee.  The DPP also said another request was sent to Germany and Denmark in 2013 for BDC and Can Manufacturers Botswana.

Evidence was long received and was sent to Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC), Tiroyakgosi said.  “The office of the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime has not returned the file for assessment and prosecution,” he said.

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