CMB Directors Not Off DPP's Hook

Rapula Okaile
Rapula Okaile

Embattled former directors of Capital Management Botswana (CMB) are not yet off the hook after the Court of Appeal (CoA) allowed the State a chance to an expedited appeal and stayed the execution of a recent judgement that acquitted them.

Timothy Marsland and Rapula Okaile were jubilant in August following a High Court decision, which cleared them in the close to P500 million pension fund controversy.

Marsland has been held in a South African prison awaiting extradition to Botswana after being arrested by Interpol for allegedly trying to flee to Germany.

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