BURS, DCEC pounce on millionaires

BURS Headquarters PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
BURS Headquarters PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The Botswana Unified Revenue Services (BURS) and the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) are supposedly breathing down Hutrex Group (Pty) Ltd and Moffat Group (Pty) Ltd's necks following eyebrow-raising tender awards for masks.

The internal revenue and the corruption-busting agencies have been onto the two companies allegedly owing the tax collector a combined P12 million in unpaid taxes.

Mmegi investigations have revealed that the two companies that were awarded a combined P47 million in tenders to supply masks could have gotten the tenders dubiously.

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